Shuang (Hrsg.) Gao

Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness

The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China

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This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters reveal the power dynamics and ideologies underlying the varied ways Chineseness is performed, represented and contested. Together they highlight four perspectives on Chineseness: the multiplicity of Chineseness, aspirational Chineseness, chronotopes of Chineseness and the cultural politics of Chineseness. It is argued that Chineseness is best understood as an ideologically-constructed variable, the articulation of which is deeply embedded within the dynamics of neoliberal globaliz… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wang, Xuan (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-80041-384-9
EAN: 9781800413849
Produktnummer: 37349804
Verlag: Channel View Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Plattform: EPUB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Shuang Gao is a sociolinguist working at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research uses ethnographic and discourse analytical methods to understand China under globalization. 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 Cardiff University, UK. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing insights from sociolinguistics, cultural studies, digital communication, ethnography and globalisation studies. She has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.