30.728, Books: Aspiring to be Global: Gao

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Subject: 30.728, Books: Aspiring to be Global: Gao

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:26:54
From: Elinor Robertson [Elinor at Multilingual-Matters.com]
Subject: Aspiring to be Global: Gao

 


Title: Aspiring to be Global 
Subtitle: Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China 
Series Title: Encounters  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922753 


Author: Shuang Gao

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922753 Pages: 168 Price: U.S. $ 129.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922753 Pages: 168 Price: U.K. £ 89.95


Abstract:

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization
by examining the dynamics between language and social change in the tourism
destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. The author makes use of multiple
sources, including ethnographic interviews, tourist literature, public signage
and policy documents, to examine how tourist mobilities are embedded in and
interact with historical, geographical, social, cultural, economic and
semiotic factors in the creation of a ‘global village’. The transformation of
West Street is emblematic of changes in Chinese society under globalization,
revealing new subjectivities, tensions and struggles inherent in this ongoing
process of social change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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