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The Future Conditional : Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China
Author
Title
The Future Conditional : Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China / Eric S. Henry.
ISBN
9781501754920
9781501754906
9781501755163
9781501754913
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (222 pages): illustrations
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Summary
"An ethnography of students and teachers at private English language schools in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, this book examines how foreign languages have been incorporated into everyday speech practices and what it means to speak English in China today"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
The English modern
Dirty talk: hybrid registers of Chinese and English
The moral economy of walls: recursive enclosure and linguistic space
Better to die abroad than to live in China: narratives of life and learning
Commodifying language: the business of English in Shenyang
On "Chinglish": stigmatization, laughter and nostalgia
The white foreign body of the native English speaker.
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