Jinling Li
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jinling Li plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chineseness as a moving target: Language and identity transformations in the Chinese diaspora in Eindhoven, The Netherlands Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe, Wang, Zi and Florian Coulmas (eds.), pp. 137–158 | Article
The Chinese are one of the earliest established immigrant communities in the Netherlands and they are part of the new ‘superdiversity’ of metropolitan societies around the world, where the relative clarity of previous migration patterns is overlaid by vastly more complex, multilayered and less… read more
2014 Chapter 5. Learning and teaching Chinese in the Netherlands: The metapragmatics of a polycentric language Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese, Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan and Andy Hancock (eds.), pp. 97–116 | Article
This paper is concerned with the metapragmatics of Chinese as a polycentric language. Based on ethnographic observations and interviews in and around a Chinese complementary school in the Netherlands, this paper describes an ongoing shift along with demographic, economic and political changes, in… read more
2010 Segmentatie Van Gesproken Nederlands En Chinees: De invloed van Geletterdheid en schriftsoort Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 83, pp. 79–89 | Article
Words' are often regarded as the basic units of language. Previous studies into metalinguistic and metalexical development have shown, however, that people are only able to segment words from written language if words are salient linguistic units in writing in their mother-tongue. And even then… read more