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Aspiring to be Global

Autor Shuang Gao
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 feb 2019
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788922753
ISBN-10: 1788922751
Pagini: 166
Dimensiuni: 153 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: MULTILINGUAL MATTERS

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This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a 'global village' and reveals ambivalent struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.