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Publication details [#63044]

Dong, Jie. 2017. Voice making in intercultural communication: the Chinese transcontinental ‘commuters’. Language and Intercultural Communication 17 (2) : 150–165.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores voice making of Chinese transcontinental emigrants in intercultural communication from a Chinese viewpoint. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, it explores new Chinese emigrants who have moved upward to the middle layers of the Chinese society, and now move out of the country by mobilizing their economic, educational, linguistic, and cultural resources. The paper proposes two cases to show the new emigrants’ use of languages in voice making processes. The results point out that the new Chinese emigrants are highly mobile, both geographically and socially; they show diverse kinds of voicing possibilities and align with different cultures through nuanced use of languages and language varieties; further, they exercise more and more influences both on the receiving society and on the sending society.