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Young children as intercultural mediators : Mandarin-speaking Chinese families in Britain / Zhiyan Guo.
Van Pelt Library P115.5.G7 G86 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Guo, Zhiyan, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Languages for intercultural communication ; 26.
- Languages for intercultural communication ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bilingualism in children--Great Britain.
- Bilingualism in children.
- Intercultural communication--Great Britain.
- Intercultural communication.
- Children of immigrants--Great Britain--Language.
- Children of immigrants.
- Translating and interpreting--Great Britain.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Chinese--Great Britain--Languages.
- Chinese.
- Mandarin dialects--Great Britain.
- Mandarin dialects.
- Language and languages.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 193 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Multilingual Matters, [2014]
- Summary:
- This multidisciplinary approach to cultural mediation brings together insights from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and intercultural communication to offer a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents in immigrant families and of the informative aspects of their everdyday lives. Futhermore, the family home setting offers the reader a glimpse of a personal territory that researches often have great difficulty accessing. This ethnographic study will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working in the areas of intercultural communications, childhood studies, family relations and migration studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Migration and acculturation
- Chapter 2: Understanding childhood
- Chapter 5: Cultural mediation
- Chapter 4: Child mediators and their families
- Chapter 3: The assimilative level of child cultural mediation
- Chapter 6: The appropriative level of child cultural mediation
- Chapter 7: The accommodative level of child cultural mediation
- Chapter 8: Demystifying child cultural mediation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Ph. D. Manchester Metropolitan University 2007
- Originally presented as the authors thesis under title Young children as cultural mediators : a study of Mandarin speaking Chinese families in the UK [electronic resource].
- ISBN:
- 9781783092130
- 1783092130
- 9781783092123
- 1783092122
- OCLC:
- 870530810
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