Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration: The Long March to the City

✍ Scribed by Dong Jie

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 166
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Transcription Symbols and Conventions
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Long March to the City: An Ethnography of Discourse and Layered Identities among China’s Internal Migrants
Chapter 2. A Roadmap into the Issue
Chapter 3. Scale 1: Interaction
Chapter 4. Scale 2: Metapragmatic Discourses
Chapter 5. Scale 3: Institutions
Chapter 6. Conclusions and Reflections
Appendix 1. Overview of Data Collection
Appendix 2. Chinese Texts and Pinyin Transcripts of Examples
References
Index