Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Contemporary Chinese Discourse from Sociolinguistic Perspectives 1
7. Discourse and Ideology
8. Language and Power in China 11
9. Discourse and the Development of Public Sphere in China 27
10. Towards a Cultural Methodology of Human Communication Research 45
11. Nation-State Building in a Rising China 59
12. Language Ideology and Semiotic Negotiation in Mongolian Use 81
13. Identity and Attitude
14. Changing Attitude for Bilingual Education in Liangshan, China 103
15. Co-construction of migrant workers’ identities on a TV talk show in China 125
16. Identity Construction in Weibo Communication 143
17. Linguistic choices in the Chinese workplace 163
18. Popular Spring Festival Gala Language 185
19. The discourse of unity in diversity in Contemporary China 201
20. Index 221