Publications

Publication details [#27635]

Zhang, Xiaoling. 2002. "Them" and "us" in Shanghai today. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (158) : 141–161.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | critical discourse analysis | literary dialogue | rural community | urban community

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This critical analysis of contemporary Chinese literary discourse on the issue of human relationships in urban-rural encounters, demonstrates that the gap between urban citicizens and temporary rural migrants is created by both policy-makers and people's attitudes.