Chinese Sociolinguistics

Language and Identity in Greater China

Chunsheng Yang

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Routledge
31 January 2024

Language: reference & general; Sociolinguistics; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies

Chinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China.

This book is the first textbook to be exclusively devoted to the issues of language, society, and identity in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and overseas Chinese communities (the Greater China). The book includes topics on the role of language in Chinese culture; the linguistic indexing of socioeconomic class; dialects and regional language variation; the impacts of state policies; linguistic borrowings; bilingualism and bicultural identity; and language shift and attrition. The emergence of new forms of language as influenced by modern technologies and possible future developments is also discussed in this book.

This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in Chinese sociolinguistics, particularly with a focus on language, identity, and society in Greater China. This book will also be of interest to members of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

By: Chunsheng Yang
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9781032382425
ISBN 10: 1032382422
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 31 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Laying the Foundation Chapter 2 Chinese Languages: Past, Present and Future Chapter 3 Naming and Proper Name Planning in China Chapter 4 Language Planning, Policy and Attitudes in China Chapter 5 Language Use, Policy, and Attitudes in Hong Kong and Macao Chapter 6 Language Policy, Use, and Attitudes in Taiwan and Singapore Chapter 7 Gender and Identity in Chinese Language Chapter 8 Language and Rural/Urban Identity Chapter 9 Identity and Language Maintenance among the Chinese Diaspora Chapter 10 The Linguistic Landscape of Greater China Chapter 11 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and its Role as a Lingua Franca Chapter 12 English Education in China Chapter 13 Emerging Chinese Language Forms Chapter 14 Face, Politeness, and Responses to Compliments in Chinese

Chunsheng Yang is an associate professor of Chinese and applied linguistics at the University of Connecticut, U.S.A. Chunsheng’s main research areas are Chinese phonetics, phonology, second-language acquisition, especially with respect to second language prosody, Chinese sociolinguistics, and Chinese pedagogy. Chunsheng has published widely on the acquisition of L2 Chinese prosody and other aspects of Chinese sounds.