Learning Chinese, turning Chinese : challenges to becoming sinophone in a globalised world / / Edward McDonald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789434303321
• Autore: McDonald Edward
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-88718-0; 1-283-37386-6; 9786613373861; 1-136-88719-9; 0-203-83980-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Asia's Transformations
• Disciplina: 495.1; 495.1/80071
• Soggetti: Chinese language - Globalization; Chinese language - Study and teaching; Chinese language --Globalization; Chinese language --Study and teaching; Second language acquisition; Second language acquisition - Globalization; Chinese language; Languages & Literatures; East Asian Languages & Literatures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Language in Chinese studies; Part A: The Great Wall of Chinese language teaching; 1. Arguing semantics with a Beijing taxi-driver: relating text and context in a university Chinese language program; 2. Gateways to becoming sinophone: conflicting paradigmsin Chinese language textbooks; 3. Learning Chinese the Lee Kuan Yew way: the socialand political context of language learning; Part B: Drawing battlelines over language; 4. Character fetishisation: the modus operandi oforientalism in Chinese ; studies5. Ideolatry versus phonolatry?: Chinese characters as disciplinary identifier; 6. Keeping Chinese for the Chinese: the paradox ofnativised orientalism in Chinese linguistics; Part C: Getting over the Walls of Discourse; 7. Construing 'metrosexual' in Chinese: social andsemiotic change in the era of globalisation; 8. Reconstruction versus deconstruction: textualcriticism, social semiotics and 'New Sinology'; 9. From 'Ed McDonald' to 'Ned McHorse':negotiating multiple identities in a globalised world; Primary sourcesSuggestions for further reading; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to their own mother tongue. While the entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language classroom, the kinds of ""language"" and ""culture"" on offer there are rarely questioned, and the links between the forms of the language and the situations in which they may be used are rarely draw