1st Edition

The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China

By Jie Dong Copyright 2017
160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book deploys and develops the notion of voice in an investigation of China’s rapidly reshuffling society. The book is structured around two aspects of the voicing process in contemporary China: (1) stratification of voice, which addresses the stabilizing condition of voice; and (2) restratification of voice that draws attention to the dynamics of the system of which the order is reshuffling... Read more

Part I: Voice
1. Voice in globalizing China: An Ethnography
2. China’s Stratification and Linguistic Complexity

Part II: Stratification of Voice and the Stabilizing Conditions of Voice
3. Enregistered Voice of Putonghua
4. Voice in the Move: Internal Labor Migrants and Elite Migrants

Part III: Restratification of Voice
5. Voice and the Transnational “Commuters”
6. Voicing in the Virtual Spaces
7. Conclusions and Reflections

Biography

Dong Jie is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University, China.

A must read for those who want to appreciate the voices from different corners of the Chinese society that is being stratified and restratified by migration and globalization.  Andy Gao, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong