Publications

Publication details [#51682]

Lin, Shumin. 2009. How listening is silenced: A monolingual Taiwanese elder constructs identity through television viewing. Language in Society 38 (3) : 311–327.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | minority | multilingualism | old age | television

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper shows how language choice in Taiwanese television programming transfers meaning and structures participation frameworks in which monolingual minority people engage in dialogic identity negotiation processes.