Chineses in the Diaspora

Multilingual Practices and Chinese Identity in Los Angeles
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-80041-168-5
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Challenges simplified discourses that describe Chinese as the next global language.

This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, a city with a Chinese diasporic population of around 500,000. It describes the contact between different Chineses in a diasporic setting, illustrating how non-Putonghua features are made use of to form distinct identities and speech communities. It demonstrates that localized conceptions of 'Chineseness' hold greater sociolinguistic significance than the transnational narratives of a unified global Chinese. The author argues that a homogeneous global Chinese is unlikely to arise as, analogous to ‘World Englishes’, different degrees of divergence are found in Chineses around the world. This book will appeal to scholars interested in Chinese language variation, translanguaging practices, language ideology and identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tian, Feiyang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Chineses in Los Angeles as a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon

Chapter 2. The Linguistic Landscape of Los Angeles Chinatowns

Chapter 3. Chineses in Everyday Communication: Portraits of Five Chinese Immigrants’ Linguistic Trajectories

Chapter 4. Chineses in Los Angeles Chinese Schools

Chapter 5. Chineses in News Media

Chapter 6. Conclusion and Discussion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tian, Feiyang
Feiyang Tian is an English Instructor at Beihang University, Beijing, China. Her research focuses on language and culture from a sociolinguistics of globalization perspective.

Feiyang Tian is an English Instructor at Beihang University, Beijing, China, and Adjunct Researcher with the Language and Science Laboratory of Jiangsu Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory of Jiangsu Province). Her research focuses on language and culture from a sociolinguistics of globalization perspective.