Chunsheng Yang

Chinese Sociolinguistics

Language and Identity in Greater China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 235mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781032382425
• ISBN-10: 1032382422
• Artikelnr.: 69033484

Autorenporträt

Chunsheng Yang is an associate professor of Chinese and applied linguistics at the University of Connecticut, U.S.A. Chunsheng¿s main research areas are Chinese phonetics, phonology, second-language acquisition, especially with respect to second language prosody, Chinese sociolinguistics, and Chinese pedagogy. Chunsheng has published widely on the acquisition of L2 Chinese prosody and other aspects of Chinese sounds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Laying the Foundation
Chapter 2 Chinese Languages: Past, Present and Future
Chapter 3 Naming and Proper Name Planning in China
Chapter 4 Language Planning, Policy and Attitudes in China
Chapter 5 Language Use, Policy, and Attitudes in Hong Kong and Macao
Chapter 6 Language Policy, Use, and Attitudes in Taiwan and Singapore
Chapter 7 Gender and Identity in Chinese Language
Chapter 8 Language and Rural/Urban Identity
Chapter 9 Identity and Language Maintenance among the Chinese Diaspora
Chapter 10 The Linguistic Landscape of Greater China
Chapter 11 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and its Role as a Lingua
Franca
Chapter 12 English Education in China
Chapter 13 Emerging Chinese Language Forms
Chapter 14 Face, Politeness, and Responses to Compliments in Chinese