Chinese Sociolinguistics - Chunsheng Yang

Chinese Sociolinguistics

Language and Identity in Greater China

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
152 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-38242-5 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
Chinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China.

This book is the first textbook to be exclusively devoted to the issues of language, society, and identity in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and overseas Chinese communities (the Greater China). The book includes topics on the role of language in Chinese culture; the linguistic indexing of socioeconomic class; dialects and regional language variation; the impacts of state policies; linguistic borrowings; bilingualism and bicultural identity; and language shift and attrition. The emergence of new forms of language as influenced by modern technologies and possible future developments is also discussed in this book.

This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in Chinese sociolinguistics, particularly with a focus on language, identity, and society in Greater China. This book will also be of interest to members of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 244 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-38242-2 / 1032382422
ISBN-13 978-1-032-38242-5 / 9781032382425
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