Language And Social Change In China

Author : Qing Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134610563

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Language and Social Change in China by Qing Zhang Pdf

Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial role of language in shaping the sociocultural landscape of contemporary China. Based on a wide range of data collected since the 1990s and grounded in quantitative and discourse analyses of sociolinguistic variation, Qing Zhang tracks the emergence of what she terms “Cosmopolitan Mandarin” as a new stylistic resource for a rising urban elite and a new middle-class consumption-based lifestyle. The book powerfully illuminates that Cosmopolitan Mandarin participates in dismantling the pre-reform, socialist, conformist society by bringing about new social distinctions. Rich in cultural and linguistic details, the book is the first of its kind to highlight the implications of language change on the social order and cultural life of contemporary China. Language and Social Change in China is ideal for students and scholars interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and Chinese language and society.

Author : Linda Tsung,Wei Wang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268112

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Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China by Linda Tsung,Wei Wang Pdf

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the on-going transformation of Chinese society. With a view to producing new insights into the interdependence between discourse and social practice, this volume explores how discourse has been changing in a context-dependent way; how social practice can lead to shifts in the use of discourse; and how identities and attitudes are constructed through language use. Largely based on empirical studies, this book indicates that Chinese discourse has not only been an integral part of social change, but also Chinese discourse itself is changing, reflecting ideologies, values, attitudes, identities and social practice. The book is a great resource for scholars in diverse disciplinary studies including linguistics, communication, education, media and political studies concerning contemporary China.

Author : Heidi A. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300055625

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China Learns English by Heidi A. Ross Pdf

An account of curriculum construction, teaching practice and classroom interaction in a Chinese secondary school by a foreign member of the faculty. Through day-to-day accounts the reader is shown not only the Chinese system but also how it compares with education debates across the globe.

Author : Tamara Jacka,Andrew B. Kipnis,Sally Sargeson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107292291

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Contemporary China by Tamara Jacka,Andrew B. Kipnis,Sally Sargeson Pdf

China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, labour, religion, education, class and rural/urban inequalities. It considers China's imperial past, the social and institutional legacies of the Maoist era, and the momentous forces shaping it in the present. It also emphasises diversity and multiplicity, encouraging readers to consider new perspectives and rethink Western stereotypes about China and its people. Real-life case studies illustrate the key features of social relations and change in China. Definitions of key terms, discussion questions and lists of further reading help consolidate learning. Including full-colour maps and photographs, this book offers remarkable insight into Chinese society and social change.

Author : Paul Chilton,Hailong Tian,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273789

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Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China by Paul Chilton,Hailong Tian,Ruth Wodak Pdf

China’s opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is so obvious that it is generally ignored in the mainstream academic departments – that politics, society and transformation are the product of myriad collective linguistic interchanges, some stabilized, some competing, some agonistic, some new and emerging. As an outcome of dialogue between Chinese and Western scholars, the present volume contains case studies that offer a survey of the discourse aspect of Chinese society in social stratification, government service, policy consultancy, higher education, foreign policy, and TV. The conceptual reflections on discourse and critique in different cultures offer new considerations for discourse analysis, including critical discourse analysis, in the context of Chinese society today. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 (2010).

Author : Wei Lei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429017841

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Radio and Social Transformation in China by Wei Lei Pdf

The first systematic, comprehensive and critical English-language study of radio in China, this book documents a historical understanding of Chinese radio from the early twentieth century to the present. Covering both public matters and private lives, Radio and Social Transformation in China analyses a range of themes from healthcare, migration and education, to intimacy, family and friendship. Through a concentrated and thorough scrutiny of a variety of new genres and radio practices in post-Mao China, it also investigates the interaction between radio and social change, particularly in the era of economic reform. Building on the core theoretical concept of ‘compressed modernity’, each of the radio genres explored is shown to embody China’s efforts to achieve modernity, while simultaneously exemplifying radio’s capacity to manage the challenges that have arisen from the country’s distinctive and perhaps unique process of modernization. Written in an engaging style, this book makes an important contribution to radio history internationally. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of broadcast media, radio and Communication Studies, as well as Chinese culture and society.

Author : Hongyin Tao
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789814350693

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Chinese Under Globalization by Hongyin Tao Pdf

The nine papers collected in this volume examine recent trends in language use in mainland China, and the associated social, economic, political, and cultural manifestations.

Author : Jin Liu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789814350709

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Chinese Under Globalization by Jin Liu Pdf

As China experiences tremendous economic and social transformation in the reform years, language use in China has also undergone remarkable changes in the past couple decades: the national obsession with learning the global English, which becomes both a resource for modernization and a source of contention; the expanding use of local languages and dialects in mass media, where standard Mandarin is promoted and legally prescribed as the principal language; the emergence of the Internet language that has become a creative source for constructing a distinct youth identity; the Cantonese writing movement that challenges the hegemony of the Chinese writing system, which is traditionally based on northern Mandarin, to name a few. The nine papers collected in this volume examine recent trends in language use in mainland China, and the associated social, economic, political, and cultural manifestations. Drawing on their backgrounds and expertise in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural studies, the authors offer interdisciplinary, insightful, and critical analysis of linguistic struggles and linguistic politics in contemporary China. As such, the carefully presented details of emerging language use in this book will be of value to scholars interested in language and culture in contemporary China. It may be used as a supplementary text for students in Chinese (socio-)linguistics, Chinese language, Chinese cultural studies, Chinese anthropology, Chinese sociology, and Chinese studies in general.

Author : Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781402080388

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Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China by Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun Pdf

Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua – a speech of no native speakers – and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement. The contributors of this volume provide the first comprehensive scrutiny of this sweeping linguistic revolution from three unique perspectives. First, outside scholars critically question the parities between constitutional rights and actual practices and between policies and outcomes. Second, inside policy practitioners review their own project involvements and inside politics, pondering over missteps, undergoing soul-searching, and theorizing their personal experiences. Third, scholars of minority origin give inside views of policy implementations and challenges in their home communities. The volume sheds light on the complexity of language policy making and implementing as well as on the politics and ideology of language in contemporary China.

Author : Jana S. Rošker,Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443867726

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Modernisation of Chinese Culture by Jana S. Rošker,Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik Pdf

The editors are grateful to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for its generous support of their research work which enabled them to publish the present book. The present book carefully maps the Chinese modernisation discourse, highlighting its relationship to other, similar discourses, and situating it within historical and theoretical contexts. In contrast to the majority of recent discussions of a “Chinese development model” that tend to focus more on institutional then cultural factors, and are more narrowly concerned with economic matters than overall social development, the book offers several important focal points for many presently overlooked issues and dilemmas. The multifaceted perspectives contained in this anthology are not limited to economic, social, and ecological issues, but also include political and social functions of ideologies and cultural conditioned values, representing the axial epistemological grounds of modern Chinese society. 2011 was the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. The centennial is relevant not only in terms of state ideology, but also plays a significant role within academic research into Chinese society and culture. This historic turning point likewise represents the symbolic and concrete linkages and tensions between tradition and modernity, progress and conservatism, traditional values and the demands for adjustment to contemporary societies. The book shows that Chinese transition from tradition to modernity cannot be understood in a framework of a unified general model of society, but rather through a more complex insight into the interrelations among elements of physical environment, social structure, philosophy, history, and culture.

Author : Qiang Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004187177

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Thirty Years of Reform and Social Changes in China by Qiang Li Pdf

Thirty Years of Reform and Social Changes in China is translated from the original Chinese to provide a look into how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent societal and political history. This volume and the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessible English language look at the state of current scholarship in China on the interplay of the country's political and economic reforms with the society and daily life of its people.

Author : John N. Hawkins
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039379685

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Education and Social Change in the People's Republic of China by John N. Hawkins Pdf

Author : Qing Cao,Hailong Tian,Paul Chilton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270368

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Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China by Qing Cao,Hailong Tian,Paul Chilton Pdf

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a fluid, increasingly fragmented, but highly dynamic and yet fragile society. Written by an international team of leading scholars, this volume examines socio-political transformations of contemporary Chinese society through a systematic account, analysis and assessment of its salient discourses and their production, circulation, negotiation, and consequences. In particular, the volume focuses on the interplay of politics and media. The book’s intended readership is academics and students of Chinese studies, language and discourse, and media and communication studies.

Author : Su-Yan Pan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789622099364

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University Autonomy, the State and Social Change in China by Su-Yan Pan Pdf

This book explores the role of universities in responding to ongoing changes in China, and in shaping the relations between the university and the state during periods of social change. Tsinghua University is selected as a case study to inform this important issue. By tracing the changes and continuities Tsinghua has experienced since 1911, this book gives an in-depth analysis of how the university strives to maintain autonomy while taking a leading role in implementing China’s policy of higher education. By drawing on a vast literature of higher education theories, the book offers original insights into the university-state relationship and provides a new understanding on the complexities China faces in the era when the country is becoming a key global actor.

Author : Wai-chung Ho
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789004189171

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School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan by Wai-chung Ho Pdf

This book compares, from a historical and sociopolitical perspective, the respective systems and contents of music education in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in response to globalization, localization and Sinificiation, with particular reference to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei.