Language socialization in Chinese diasporas : indexicality of Confucian ideologies in family talk

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Title
"Language socialization in Chinese diasporas : indexicality of Confucian ideologies in family talk"
Statement of Responsibility
Hsin-fu Chiu
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2022 [i.e. 2021]
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Notes

Summary: "The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Drawing upon the approach that regards talk as a form of social practice, the book demonstrates different ways in which kin relationships are indigenously orchestrated by foreign Chinese parents and their American-born children. Micro-analytically, social actions of membership categorization, attribution, deference, compliance, commands, and story-telling that unfold in kin interactions are foregrounded as key language devices to discuss ways in which epistemic asymmetry, power hierarchy, and harmony in kin relations are constructed or deconstructed in Chinese diasporic social lives. By way of illustration, the monograph, macro-analytically, speaks to the cultural stereotype of Chinese immigrant/foreign parents' style of parenting when they pass on the traditional Confucian ideologies in kin interaction. ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181) and indexes

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