Shuang Gao

Gebundenes Buch

Aspiring to Be Global

Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China

Beschreibung

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a 'global village' and reveals ambivalent struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.

Autor

Shuang Gao is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is the author of Aspiring to be Global: Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China (Multilingual Matters, 2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Channel View Publications
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781788922753
• ISBN-10: 1788922751
• Artikelnr.: 54335551