Sociocultural contexts and English in China: Retaining and reforming the cultural habitus

China and English: Globalisation and the Dilemmas of Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 56-78

  Yihong, Gao ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Association of Chinese Sociolinguistics   (China)

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