Space, scale and accents: Constructing migrant identity in Beijing

Multilingua

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-24

  Dong, Jie ^a,b   Blommaert, Jan ^a,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Jyväskylä ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accent; China; Globalisation; Identity; Migration; Monoglot ideology; Repertoire; Scale; Space; World systems analysis (WSA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949403239     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2009.001     Document Type: Review

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