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.
1. Transnational Connections and Multilingual Realities: The Chinese
diasporic experience in a global context Li Wei Part I: Emerging Diaspora,
Emerging Identities
2. Globalization Off the Beaten TrackChinese Migration
to South Africas 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 Lumpurs Chinatown Wang
Xiaomei, Koh Yi Chern, Patricia Nora Riget, and Supramani Shoniah
12.
Grandmothers 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
Li Wei is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
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