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Reading Chinese fortune cookie : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / / LuMing Mao



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Autore: Mao LuMing <1959-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reading Chinese fortune cookie : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / / LuMing Mao Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Logan, UT, : Utah State University Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
Disciplina: 808/.04208951073
Soggetto topico: English language - United States - Rhetoric
Chinese Americans - Languages
Chinese language - Influence on English
Language and culture - United States
Intercultural communication - United States
Sociolinguistics
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction : thinking through paradoxes -- Opening topics : reading Chinese fortune cookie -- Face to face : Chinese and European American -- Indirection versus directness : a relation of complementarity -- Terms of contact reconfigured : ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism -- From classroom to community : Chinese American rhetoric on the ground -- Closing comment : Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.
Sommario/riassunto: LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to language hybridity---an advance over the traditional ""deficit model."" But Mao suggests that the ""hybridity"" approach is perhaps too arid or sanitized, missing rich nuances of mutual exchange, resistance, or even subversion. Working from Ang's concept of ""togetherness in difference
Titolo autorizzato: Reading Chinese fortune cookie  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-28351-4
9786613283511
0-87421-538-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910213815503321
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