Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide: Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities...

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Li Wei (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Marilyn Martin-Jones

Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide

Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities

Li Wei (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), Marilyn Martin-Jones

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Routledge
10 November 2015

Sociolinguistics; Bilingualism & multilingualism; Regional studies; Colonialism & imperialism; Migration, immigration & emigration

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning.

The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.

Edited by: Li Wei (Birkbeck College University of London UK)
Series edited by: Marilyn Martin-Jones
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781138794245
ISBN 10: 1138794244
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Li Wei is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

Reviews for Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide: Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities

"""This new book represents a first major attempt to provide a systematic overview of Chinese migrants and their descendants living in linguistically and socioculturally diverse host societies far away from their homeland. The book offers many insights showing how members of various Chinese diasporic communities straddle and harness conflicting identities through their day-to-day linguistic and cultural practices. Students of migration, sociolinguistics, bi-/multi-lingualism, cultural studies, intercultural communication and neighboring social science disciplines will find it a useful reference."" —David Shing Chor Li, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong"