This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and… read more
Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the… read more
As a multi-ethnic and multilingual province, Yunnan has very rich resources in the minority languages. Among the 25 ethnic minority groups, 22 groups speak 26 languages, belonging to the Tibetan-Burmese, Zhuang-Dong, Miao Yao and Meng Khmer language branches of the two major language families of… read more
Time expressions are one of the fundamental concepts of human cognition and communication and thus have been the major concern in many linguistics, applied and developmental psycholinguistic studies (e.g. Klein & Li 2009; Li & Bowerman 1998; Shirai, Slobin, & Weist 1998). A study of time… read more
This study examines the changing attitude of Yi students as well as that of their
parents and teachers in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan. It also
explores its relevance to the implementation of language education policy in a
typical bilingual school in Liangshan. Questionnaire surveys… read more
This chapter seeks to critically examine the discourse of hybridity and unity in diversity in contemporary China, using a set of tools and concepts which incorporates Foucault’s genealogical work and governmentality, and Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory. The study examines China’s education… read more
