Amdo Lullaby : An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Shannon.

Series:

Anthropological Horizons Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amdo dialect--Social aspects--China--Amdo (Region).

Amdo dialect.

Amdo (Tibetan people)--China--Amdo (Region)--Ethnic identity.

Amdo (Tibetan people).

Amdo (Tibetan people)--Socialization--China--Amdo (Region).

Ethnicity in children--China--Amdo (Region).

Ethnicity in children.

Children--China--Amdo (Region)--Language.

Children.

Anthropological linguistics--China--Amdo (Region).

Anthropological linguistics.

Amdo (China : Region)--Languages.

Amdo (China : Region).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, Chinese state development policies are catalysing rural to urban migration, consolidating schooling in urban centres, and leading Tibetan farmers and nomads to give up their traditional livelihoods. As a result, children face increasing pressure to adopt the state’s official language of Mandarin. Amdo Lullaby charts the contrasting language socialization trajectories of rural and urban children from one extended family, who are native speakers of a Tibetan language known locally as “Farmer Talk.” By integrating a fine-grained analysis of everyday conversations and oral history interviews, linguistic anthropologist Shannon M. Ward examines the forms of migration and resulting language contact that contribute to Farmer Talk’s unique grammatical structures, and that shape Amdo Tibetan children’s language choices. This analysis reveals that young children are not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations among language, place, and kinship as they build their peer relationships in everyday play."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Local Histories and Language Variation in Amdo

The Grammar of Belonging: Spatial Deixis in Situated Family Interaction

Socializing Compassion: Buddhist Theories of Emotion and Relationality in the Production of Social Difference

Learning Standard Language Ideologies: Education Policy and Colonial Alienation between the Homeland and the City

Reading in the City: Literacy as Belonging in Urban China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781487558697

1487558694

9781487558680

1487558686

OCLC:

1442066018