TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jie,Dong
TI  - Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration: The Long March to the City 
T2  - Encounters
SN  - 9781847694201
AV  - P302.15.C4 D57 2011
U1  - 306.440951 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - Children of migrant laborers
KW  - China
KW  - Chinese language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Identity
KW  - Migration
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Transcription Symbols and Conventions --; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Long March to the City: An Ethnography of Discourse and Layered Identities among China’s Internal Migrants --; Chapter 2. A Roadmap into the Issue --; Chapter 3. Scale 1: Interaction --; Chapter 4. Scale 2: Metapragmatic Discourses --; Chapter 5. Scale 3: Institutions --; Chapter 6. Conclusions and Reflections --; Appendix 1. Overview of Data Collection --; Appendix 2. Chinese Texts and Pinyin Transcripts of Examples --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847694218
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847694218
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847694218/original
ER  -