Linguistic Entrepreneurship in Sino-African Student Mobility
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-97-2174-0 (ISBN)
Wen Xu is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Language Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests focus on the intersection of language, education and society. Currently, her research projects and publications encompass studies of international students’ lived experiences in China.
1. Introduction.- 2. International student mobilities (ISM) and African students in China.- 3. Setting the context: The hierarchical ordering of languages in the world.- 4. The logic of linguistic exchanges and model of investment.- 5. Chinese language ideologies reflected in African students’ discourses.- 6. Discourses on Chinese as ‘linguistic capital’ .- 7. Sleepless in China: Linguistic investment and a burden of perfectionism.- 8. Transcending time and space: new images of the world and self.- 9. Conclusions and implications.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.05.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 234 p. 1 illus. |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
Schlagworte | Africa • China • Identity • International Higher Education • International Students • linguistic capital • linguistic investment |
ISBN-10 | 981-97-2174-1 / 9819721741 |
ISBN-13 | 978-981-97-2174-0 / 9789819721740 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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