Language Socialization in Chinese Diasporas Language Socialization in Chinese Diasporas
Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis

Language Socialization in Chinese Diasporas

Indexicality of Confucian Ideologies in Family Talk

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Publisher Description

The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Drawing upon the approach that regards talk as a form of social practice, the book demonstrates different ways in which kin relationships are indigenously orchestrated by foreign Chinese parents and their American-born children.

Micro-analytically, social actions of membership categorization, attribution, deference, compliance, commands, and story-telling that unfold in kin interactions are foregrounded as key language devices to discuss ways in which epistemic asymmetry, power hierarchy, and harmony in kin relations are constructed or deconstructed in Chinese diasporic social lives. By way of illustration, the monograph, macro-analytically, speaks to the cultural stereotype of Chinese immigrant/foreign parents’ style of parenting when they pass on the traditional Confucian ideologies in kin interaction.

This book can be a useful reference textbook for graduate courses that address the dynamic intricacy among language, culture, and society.

GENRE
Reference
RELEASED
2021
16 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
210
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
9.2
MB

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