Description
| Product ID: | 9781800413825 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Encounters |
| Title: | Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness |
| Subtitle: | The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China |
| Authors: | Author: Shuang Gao, Xuan Wang |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Migration, immigration & emigration, East Asia, Far East |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters uncover the power dynamics and ideologies underlying varied constructs of Chineseness. This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters reveal the power dynamics and ideologies underlying the varied ways Chineseness is performed, represented and contested. Together they highlight four perspectives on Chineseness: the multiplicity of Chineseness, aspirational Chineseness, chronotopes of Chineseness and the cultural politics of Chineseness. It is argued that Chineseness is best understood as an ideologically-constructed variable, the articulation of which is deeply embedded within the dynamics of neoliberal globalization, rising nationalism, persistent Western hegemony, and shifting global geopolitics. |
| Imprint Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Publisher Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-09 |
