Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities 1st Edition by Li Wei ISBN 9781138499065

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ISBN 13: 9781138499065

Author: Li Wei

In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning.

 

The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Emerging Diaspora, Emerging Identities

1. Transnational Connections and Multilingual Realities: The Chinese diasporic experience in a global context — Li Wei

2. Globalization Off the Beaten Track—Chinese Migration to South Africa’s Rural Towns — Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla

3. Polycentric Repertoires: Constructing Dutch-Chinese Youth Identities in the Classroom and Online — Jinling Li and Kasper Juffermans

4. Sojourner Tongues: Language Practices among the Chinese of Cairo — Wang Jie

Part II: Changing Times, Changing Languages
5. The Dungans of Kazakhstan: Old minority in a new nation-state — Juldyz Smagulova
6. Chinese-Spanish Contact in Cuba in the 19th Century — J. Clancy Clements
7. Shifting identities, shifting practices: The Chinese-speaking communities in Suriname — Paul Brendan Tjon Sie Fat
8. Multilingualism and the West Kalimantan Hakka — Josh Stenberg
9. Being Chinese Again: Learning Mandarin in post-Suharto Indonesia — Charlotte Setijadi

Part III: Transnational Communities, Cultural Mediators
10. Multilingualism in the Chinese community in Japan — John C. Maher
11. From monolingualism to multilingualism: The linguistic landscape in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown — Wang Xiaomei, Koh Yi Chern, Patricia Nora Riget, and Supramani Shoniah
12. Grandmother’s tongue: decline of Teochew language in Singapore — Lee Cher Leng
13. Multilingual mediators: The (continuing) role of the Peranakans in the contact dynamics of Singapore — Lisa Lim

Part IV: Transnational Families, Transcultural Living
14. The transnational journey of an Indonesian Chinese couple in Hong Kong: the story of one family, three places, and multiple languages — Katherine Hoi Ying Chen
15. Family Language Policy in the Chinese Community in Singapore: A Question of Balance? — Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
16. Language Maintenance in the Chinese Diaspora in Australia — Linda Tsung
17. Across Generations and Geographies: Communication in Chinese Heritage Language Speaking Households — Agnes Weiyun He

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