Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the backbone of China’s fast growing economy, and yet little is known about their and their children’s identities – who they are, who they think they are, and who they are becoming. The study of their linguistic practice can reveal a lot about their identity construction as well as about transitions in Chinese society and the (re)formation of social structure at the macro level. In this book, Dong Jie presents a wide range of ethnographic data which are organised around a scalar framework. She argues that three scales – linguistic communication, metapragmatic discourse, and public discourse – interact in complex and multiple ways.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: A Roadmap into the Issue
CHAPTER 3: Scale 1-Interaction
CHAPTER 4: Scale 2-Metapragmatic Discourses
CHAPTER 5: Scale 3-Institutions
CHAPTER 6: Conclusions and Reflections
Circa l’autore
Dong Jie is tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tsinghua University, China. She is the author of Discourse, Identity, and China’s Internal Migration (2011, Multilingual Matters) and The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China (2017, Routledge).
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