The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China

Author:   Jie Dong
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367133863


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   27 September 2018
Format:   Paperback
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This book deploys and develops the notion of voice in an investigation of China’s rapidly reshuffling society. The book is structured around two aspects of the voicing process in contemporary China: (1) stratification of voice, which addresses the stabilizing condition of voice; and (2) restratification of voice that draws attention to the dynamics of the system of which the order is reshuffling and not yet apparent. This structure allows us to unveil the hidden forces played out in the voice making process and to stratifying and re-stratifying process of contemporary Chinese society in which some people are making themselves heard whereas others are losing voice. Despite its importance and usefulness, voice has been under theorized in recent decades. The ambitions of this book therefore are to invest serious efforts in developing the notion and to position it in the center of the theoretical toolkits available to students and scholars within and outside sociolinguistics.

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Author:   Jie Dong
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780367133863


ISBN 10:   0367133865
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   27 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part I: Voice 1. Voice in globalizing China: An Ethnography 2. China’s Stratification and Linguistic Complexity Part II: Stratification of Voice and the Stabilizing Conditions of Voice 3. Enregistered Voice of Putonghua 4. Voice in the Move: Internal Labor Migrants and Elite Migrants Part III: Restratification of Voice 5. Voice and the Transnational “Commuters” 6. Voicing in the Virtual Spaces 7. Conclusions and Reflections

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A must read for those who want to appreciate the voices from different corners of the Chinese society that is being stratified and restratified by migration and globalization. Andy Gao, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong


A must read for those who want to appreciate the voices from different corners of the Chinese society that is being stratified and restratified by migration and globalization. Andy Gao, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong


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Dong Jie is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University, China.

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