Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration : The Long March to the City

Jie, Dong

ISBN 10: 1847694195 / ISBN 13: 9781847694195

Published by Multilingual Matters, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration : The Long March to the City
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847694195
• ISBN 13: 9781847694195
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 a scalar framework. She argues that three scales – linguistic communication, metapragmatic discourse, and public discourse – interact in complex and multiple ways.

About the Author

Dong Jie is tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tsinghua University, China. She is the author of Discourse, Identity, and China’s Internal Migration (2011, Multilingual Matters) and The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China (2017, Routledge).