Eric S. Henry

The Future Conditional

Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781501755163
• ISBN-10: 1501755161
• Artikelnr.: 60983827

Autorenporträt

Eric S. Henry

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The English Modern
1. Dirty Talk: Hybrid Registers of Chinese and English
2. The Moral Economy of Walls: Recursive Enclosure and Linguistic Space
3. Better to Die Abroad Than to Live in China: Narratives of Life and
Learning
4. Commodifying Language: The Business of English in Shenyang
5. On "Chinglish": Stigmatization, Laughter, and Nostalgia
6. Raciolinguistic Identities: The White Foreign Body of the Native English
Speaker
Conclusion: Reflections on a Global Language