| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Encounters ; 13 |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Approaching the "global village" -- Commodification of place, consumption of identity: making "global village" a brand -- Tensions of space: living on the margins of the "global village" -- Global village as "English corner": enjoy speaking English all the time -- Globalization: a short reflection |
| Summary |
This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining the dynamics between language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. The author makes use of multiple sources, including ethnographic interviews, tourist literature, public signage and policy documents, to examine how tourist mobilities are embedded in and interact with historical, geographical, social, cultural, economic and semiotic factors in the creation of a 'global village'. The transformation of West Street is emblematic of changes in Chinese society under globalization, revealing new subjectivities, tensions and struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Languages in contact -- China -- Yangshuo Xian
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Sociolinguistics -- China -- Yangshuo Xian
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Chinese language -- Globalization
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English language -- China -- Yangshuo Xian
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English language -- Influence on Chinese.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Globalization.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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English language -- Influence on Chinese
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English language
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Languages in contact
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Sociolinguistics
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China -- Yangshuo Xian
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781788922760 |
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178892276X |
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