MCLC: Chinese Under Globalization--new book

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Chinese Under Globalization--new book
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Here's a newly published book that list members might be interested in.

Kirk 

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Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China
Edited by Jin Liu and Hongyin Tao
Published in 2012 by World Scientific (Singapore; London)

Description:

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.

Contents:

    * Synchronic Variation or Diachronic Change: A Sociolinguistic Study
of Chinese Internet Language (Liwei Gao)
    * The Metaphorical World of Chinese Online Entertainment News (Chong
Han)
    * The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and
Local Youth Identity in Urban China (Jin Liu)
    * ³My Turf, I Decide²: Linguistic Circulation in the Emergence of a
Chinese Youth Culture (Qing Zhang and Chen-Chun E)
    * Chinese Via English: A Case Study of ³Lettered-Words² As a Way of
Integration into Global Communication (Ksenia Kozha)
    * Learning English to Promote Chinese ‹ A Study of Li Yang's Crazy
English (Amber R Woodward)
    * More than Errors and Embarrassment: New Approaches to Chinglish
(Oliver Radtke)
    * Writing Cantonese as Everyday Lifestyle in Guangzhou (Canton City)
(Jing Yan)
    * Negotiating Linguistic Identities Under Globalization: Language Use
in Contemporary China (Jin Liu and Hongyin Tao)

for more information, please go to
http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/8160.html