DISCOURSE, IDENTITY, AND CHINAS INTERNAL MIGRATION: THE LONG MARCH TO THE CITY (ENCOUNTERS). Este artículo no está disponible.DISCOURSE, IDENTITY, AND CHINAS INTERNAL MIGRATION: THE LONG MARCH TO THE CITY (ENCOUNTERS)

Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the backbone of China’s fast growing economy, and yet little is known about their and their children’s identities - who they are, who they think they are, and who they are becoming. The study of their linguistic practice can reveal a lot about their identity construction as well as about transitions in Chinese society and the (re)formation of social structure at the macro level. In this book, Dong Jie presents a wide range of ethnographic data which are organised around a scalar framework. She argues that three scales - linguistic communication, metapragmatic discourse, and public discourse - interact in complex and multiple ways.

Jie Dong is a professor at Tsinghua University, China. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, with a particular interest in language globalization, language identity, ethnography, linguistic landscaping, and new media. She did her doctoral and post-doc research with Jan Blommaert between 2006 and 2012. Her publications include Ethnographic Fieldwork (with Jan Blommaert, Multilingual Matters, 2010, 2020), Discourse, identity, and China’s internal migration (Multilingual Matters, 2011), and The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China (Routledge, 2017). She is the principal investigator of research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, Beijing Social Sciences Fund, and Tsinghua University Foundation of Arts and Humanities.