Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration
Dong Jie
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Paperback. 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. Series: Encounters. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; CFB; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
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 are organised around ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Encounters
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847694195
SKU
V9781847694195
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Dong Jie
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).
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Through her insightful ethnographic exploration of rural-urban migrant identity in neighborhoods and schools of Beijing, Dong Jie has achieved the ambitious purpose of documenting both the rapidly changing face of China’s super-diverse cities and the theoretical value of a scaled approach to the study of linguistic processes of identity construction.
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