Description
Book SynopsisChinese 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).
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
