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Publication details [#65253]

Gu, Michelle Mingyue and Xiaoyan Grace Guo. 2018. Exploring Uyghur University students’ identities constructed through multilingual practices in China. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (4) : 480–495.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language use | multilingualism | student | university

Language as a subject

Putonghua | Uyghur

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines how a group of tertiary-level Uyghur students disputed and parleyed their identities via multilingual practices in the Chinese host society. It states that they met with essentialist grasps and negative attitudes in the host country.