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

Informationen zum Autor Dong Jie completed her PhD at Tilburg University in 2009. She is a linguistic anthropologist at the Babylon Center and the Department of Languages and Cultures, Tilburg University. Her publications include Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide (2010, with Jan Blommaert). 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dong Jie, Not Available (NA)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2011
• EAN: 9781847694195
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-419-5
• Series: Encounters; Encounters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)