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Chineses in the diaspora: multilingual practices and Chinese identity in Los Angeles / Feiyang Tian.
De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2026 Part 2 Available online
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De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2026- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tian, Feiyang, author.
- Series:
- Encounter
- Encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--California--Los Angeles--Languages.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese language--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles.
- Chinese language.
- Chinese language--Dialects--California--Los Angeles.
- Multilingualism--California--Los Angeles.
- Multilingualism.
- Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese diaspora.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Jackson : Multilingual Matters, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, describing the interaction of distinct Chineses in a diasporic setting. It demonstrates how ethnolinguistic repertoires are used to form localized Chinese identities and world Chineses with different degrees of divergence from standard Putonghua."-- From De Gruyter Brill.
- Contents:
- Chineses in Los Angeles as a sociolinguistic phenomenon
- Terminology
- Dialect, variety and Chineses
- Mainland Mandarin vs Taiwan Mandarin
- LA Chinatowns
- LA Chinese immigrants
- Chinese language in LA: past and present
- Earlier studies of Chinese people and the Chinese language in LA
- Theoretical framework
- The sociolinguistics of globalization
- Sociolinguistic scales and orders of indexicality
- Polycentricity
- Repertoire, languaging and translanguaging.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed March 31, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tian, Feiyang Chineses in the diaspora
- ISBN:
- 9781800411739
- 1800411731
- 9781800411777
- 1800411774
- OCLC:
- 1570555164
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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