The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China

This book deploys and develops the notion of voice in an investigation of China's rapidly reshuffling society.

Dong Jie is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Tsinghua University, China.

Part I: Voice 1. Voice in globalizing China: An Ethnography 2. China's Stratification and Linguistic Complexity Part II: Stratification of Voice and the Stabilizing Conditions of Voice 3. Enregistered Voice of Putonghua 4. Voice in the Move: Internal Labor Migrants and Elite Migrants Part III: Restratification of Voice 5. Voice and the Transnational "Commuters" 6. Voicing in the Virtual Spaces 7. Conclusions and Reflections