Aspiring to be global : language and social change in a tourism village in China / Shuang Gao.
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TextSeries: Encounters ; 13.Publisher: Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2019Description: 168 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788922753 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Languages in contact -- China -- Yangshuo Xian | Sociolinguistics -- China -- Yangshuo Xian | Chinese language -- Globalization | English language -- China -- Yangshuo Xian | English language -- Influence on Chinese | Languages | LanguagesDDC classification: 306.4'4'095128 Summary: This volume makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalisation 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'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalisation 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'.
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