Discourse Identity and China's Internal Migration - The Long March to the City

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data. Zusammenfassung Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy! yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Dong Jie, Not Available (NA)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2011
• EAN: 9781847694201
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-420-1
• Series: Encounters; Encounters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)