Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide

Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities
Herausgeber: Wei, Li

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning. The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781138499065
• ISBN-10: 1138499064
• Artikelnr.: 54802838

Autorenporträt

Li Wei is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Transnational Connections and Multilingual Realities: The Chinese
diasporic experience in a global context Li Wei Part I: Emerging Diaspora,
Emerging Identities 2. Globalization Off the Beaten Track-Chinese Migration
to South Africa's Rural Towns Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla 3.
Polycentric Repertoires: Constructing Dutch-Chinese Youth Identities in the
Classroom and Online Jinling Li and Kasper Juffermans 4. Sojourner Tongues:
Language Practices among the Chinese of Cairo Wang Jie Part II: Changing
Times, Changing Languages 5. The Dungans of Kazakhstan: Old minority in a
new nation-state Juldyz Smagulova 6. Chinese-Spanish Contact in Cuba in the
19th Century J. Clancy Clements 7. Shifting identities, shifting practices:
The Chinese-speaking communities in Suriname Paul Brendan Tjon Sie Fat 8.
Multilingualism and the West Kalimantan Hakka Josh Stenberg 9. Being
Chinese Again: Learning Mandarin in post-Suharto Indonesia Charlotte
Setijadi Part III: Transnational Communities, Cultural Mediators 10.
Multilingualism in the Chinese community in Japan John C. Maher 11. From
monolingualism to multilingualism: The linguistic landscape in Kuala
Lumpur's Chinatown Wang Xiaomei, Koh Yi Chern, Patricia Nora Riget, and
Supramani Shoniah 12. Grandmother's tongue: decline of Teochew language in
Singapore Lee Cher Leng 13. Multilingual mediators: The (continuing) role
of the Peranakans in the contact dynamics of Singapore Lisa Lim Part IV:
Transnational Families, Transcultural Living 14. The transnational journey
of an Indonesian Chinese couple in Hong Kong: the story of one family,
three places, and multiple languages Katherine Hoi Ying Chen 15. Family
Language Policy in the Chinese Community in Singapore: A Question of
Balance? Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen 16. Language Maintenance in the
Chinese Diaspora in Australia Linda Tsung 17. Across Generations and
Geographies: Communication in Chinese Heritage Language Speaking Households
Agnes Weiyun He