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Challenges simplified discourses that describe Chinese as the next global language.
This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, a city with a Chinese diasporic population of around 500,000. It describes the contact between different Chineses in a diasporic setting, illustrating how non-Putonghua features are made use of to form distinct identities and speech communities. It demonstrates that localized conceptions of 'Chineseness' hold greater sociolinguistic significance than the transnational narratives of a unified global Chinese. The author argues that a homogeneous global Chinese is unlikely to arise as, analogous to ‘World Englishes’, different degrees of divergence are found in Chineses around the world. This book will appeal to scholars interested in Chinese language variation, translanguaging practices, language ideology and identity.
The main aim of a sociolinguistics of globalization is to understand the complexity that emerges when people make meaning in times of mobility and change. Feiyang Tian’s meticulous analysis of the multilingual reality in the superdiverse Chinese population of Los Angels convincingly shows how sociolinguistic patterns correlate with geopolitical and social transformations and how they index diaspora discourses and identities.
Feiyang Tian is an English Instructor at Beihang University, Beijing, China, and Adjunct Researcher with the Language and Science Laboratory of Jiangsu Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory of Jiangsu Province). Her research focuses on language and culture from a sociolinguistics of globalization perspective.
Chapter 1. Chineses in Los Angeles as a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon
Chapter 2. The Linguistic Landscape of Los Angeles Chinatowns
Chapter 3. Chineses in Everyday Communication: Portraits of Five Chinese Immigrants’ Linguistic Trajectories
Chapter 4. Chineses in Los Angeles Chinese Schools
Chapter 5. Chineses in News Media
Chapter 6. Conclusion and Discussion
References
Index