ISBN:
9781847694218
,
1847694217
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 156 pages)
,
Illustrations
Series Statement:
Encounters 1
DDC:
306.440951
Keywords:
Migration
;
Landflucht
;
Identität
;
Chinesisch
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Ethnolinguistik
;
China
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-154) and index
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