Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness - The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters uncover the power dynamics and ideologies underlying varied constructs of Chineseness.

About the author

Shuang Gao is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is the author of Aspiring to be Global: Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China (Multilingual Matters, 2019).
Xuan Wang is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cardiff, UK. Her research interests include globalization, tourism and ethnography.

Summary

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters uncover the power dynamics and ideologies underlying varied constructs of Chineseness.

Product details

• Assisted by: Shuang Gao (Editor), Xuan Wang (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800413825
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-382-5
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Series: Encounters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, East Asia, Far East, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc