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The future conditional : building an English-speaking society in northeast China /

"An ethnography of students and teachers at private English language schools in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, this book examines how foreign languages have been incorporated into everyday speech practices and what it means to speak English in China today"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henry, Eric S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The English modern
  • Dirty talk: hybrid registers of Chinese and English
  • The moral economy of walls: recursive enclosure and linguistic space
  • Better to die abroad than to live in China: narratives of life and learning
  • Commodifying language: the business of English in Shenyang
  • On "Chinglish": stigmatization, laughter and nostalgia
  • The white foreign body of the native English speaker.