Aspiring to Be Global Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China - Encounters

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining the dynamics between language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. The author makes use of multiple sources, including ethnographic interviews, tourist literature, public signage and policy documents, to examine how tourist mobilities are embedded in and interact with historical, geographical, social, cultural, economic and semiotic factors in the creation of a 'global village'. The transformation of West Street is emblematic of changes in Chinese society under globalization, revealing new subjectivities, tensions and struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.

ISBN:	9781788920995
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Imprint:	Multilingual Matters
Published date:	16 May 2022
DEWEY:	306.44095128
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	168
Weight:	226g
Height:	147mm
Width:	209mm
Spine width:	13mm

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