The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China

Jie Dong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-79880-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.7.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-79880-0 / 1138798800
ISBN-13	978-1-138-79880-9 / 9781138798809
Zustand	Neuware