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Voicing as an Essential Problem of Communication: Language and Education of Chinese Immigrant Children in Globalization
Author(s) -
Dong Jie,
Dong Yan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12013
Subject(s) - voice , immigration , identity (music) , sociology , globalization , process (computing) , linguistics , political science , computer science , law , aesthetics , philosophy , operating system
This article explores voicing processes of identity construction among labor immigrants both inside C hina and in the D utch C hinese D iaspora. We provide ethnographically grounded data oriented toward a theoretical point: voicing is an essential problem in communication. Whether one is able to achieve his voice—an outcome of a communicative process—is often conditioned by pretextual factors that exist before and beyond communication, and has to be negotiated in the communicative process.