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Chinese Under Globalization : Emerging Trends in Language Use in China /
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 con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; References; Chapter 1. Synchronic Variation or Diachronic Change: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Internet Language / Liwei Gao; 1. Introduction; 2. The Theoretical Framework; 2.1. The apparent time construct; 2.2. Other considerations; 2.2.1. The prestige of CIL; 2.2.2. The likelihood of cross-modality influence; 2.2.3. The role of youths in linguistic change; 3. The Data; 3.1. The lexical usages; 3.2. The sentential features; 3.3. The discursive level; 3.3.1. A bilingual code5; 3.3.2. A written spoken style; 3.3.3. A joking style.
- 4. Possible Types of Linguistic Changes; 4.1. Lexicon; 4.2. Grammar; 4.2.1. Word order; 4.2.2. Change in word category; 4.3. Discourse; 5. Concluding Remarks; References
- Chapter 2. The Metaphorical World of Chinese Online Entertainment News / Chong Han; 1. Entertainment News in China; 2. Metaphorical Tricks; 3. Defining Metaphor; 4. Description of the Data; 5. The Identified Metaphors; 5.1. War; 5.1.1. Competition is War; 5.1.2. Business is War; 5.1.3. Interaction is War; 5.2. Martial arts; 5.3. Fire; 5.3.1. Success in market is fire (or heat or explosion).
- 5.3.2. Enthusiam is fire (or explosion); 5.3.3. Sexual appeal is fire (or explosion); 5.4. Wind; 5.5. Food; 6. Conclusion; References
- Chapter 3. The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China / Jin Liu; 1. Introduction; 2. The Educated Youth's Promotion of Dialects on the Internet; 2.1. Xue Cun's internet song in Northeastern Mandarin; 2.2. A reaction to the global English and the national Mandarin; 2.3. Signifying pluralism and diversity in dialect-rendered texts; 2.4. Writing of dialect with Chinese characters on the Internet.
- 2.5. The "standard" tests on dialect competence; 3. Dialect Rap Songs and Local Youth Identity; 3.1. Distinctive local sensibilities; 3.2. Strong local identity and the construction of locality in dialect rap; 4. The SHN Website and the Shanghai Youth Identity; References
- Chapter 4. "My Turf, I Decide": Linguistic Circulation in the Emergence of a Chinese Youth Culture / Qing Zhang and Chen-Chun E; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Frameworks; 3. The Origin of "My Turf, I Decide" and Its Metapragmatic Typification; 4. Linguistic Features of the Slogan; 5. Google Search of "My Turf, I Decide."
- 6. Circulation and Recontextualization of the Slogan in Online Discourses; 6.1. Taking a stance of independence and self-determination; 6.2. Taking a stance of defiance against authority; 6.3. Taking a stance of individuality and (bold) self-expression; 6.4. Taking a stance of individuality and audacity; 7. Titles of Commercial Web Pages; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; References
- Chapter 5. Chinese Via English: A Case Study of "Lettered-Words" As a Way of Integration into Global Communication / Ksenia Kozha; 1. Introduction; 2. Lettered-Words as Transfer Factor; 2.1. Why lettered words? 3. Integration: Its Context and Contents.
- Chapter 6. Learning English to promote Chinese: a study of Li Yang's Crazy English / Amber R. Woodward
- Chapter 7. More than errors and embarrassment: new approaches to Chinglish / Oliver Radtke
- Chapter 8. Writing Cantonese as everyday lifestyle in Guangzhou (Canton City) / Jing Yan
- Chapter 9. Negotiating linguistic identities under globalization: language use in contemporary China / Jin Liu and Hongyin Tao.