Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese : Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World

ISBN-13: 9780415559416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str.

Edward McDonald

Opis

The entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language classroom. But what sort of 'language' & 'culture' are on offer there? In this book Edward McDonald emphasizes the importance of the social & cultural factors in language learning & seeks to blow away many existing myths about Chinese language learning.

Spis treści

 Preface: Language in Chinese Studies  Part 1: The Great Wall of Chinese Language Teaching  1. Arguing Semantics with a Beijing Taxi Driver: Relating Text and Context in a Chinese Studies Program  2. Gateways to Becoming Sinophone: Traditions and Biases in Chinese Language Textbooks  3. Learning Chinese the Lee Kwan Yew Way: The Social and Political Context of Language Learning  Part 2: Drawing Battlelines over Language  4. Character Fetishization: The Modus Operandi of Orientalism in Chinese Studies  5. Ideolatry vs Phonolatry?: Chinese Characters as Disciplinary Identifier  6. Keeping Chinese for the Chinese: The Paradox of Nativised Orientalism in Chinese Linguistics  Part 3: Getting Over the Walls of Discourse  7. Construing ‘Metrosexual’ in Chinese: Social and Semiotic Change in the Era of Globalisation  8. Reconstruction vs Deconstruction: Textual Criticism, Social Semiotics, and ‘New Sinology’  9. From ‘Ed McDonald’ to ‘Ned McHorse’: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Globalised World

O autorze

McDonald, Edward