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Young Children as Intercultural Mediators: Mandarin-Speaking Chinese Families in Britain
Contributor(s): Guo, Zhiyan (Author)
ISBN: 1783092122     ISBN-13: 9781783092123
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
Dewey: 305.795
LCCN: 2014003588
Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 216 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This multidisciplinary approach to cultural mediation brings together insights from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and intercultural communication to offer a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents in immigrant families and of the informative aspects of their everyday lives. Furthermore, the family home setting offers the reader a glimpse of a personal territory that researchers often have great difficulty accessing. This ethnographic study will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working in the areas of intercultural communication, childhood studies, family relations and migration studies.

Contributor Bio(s): Guo, Zhiyan: - Zhiyan Guo is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Language Center at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include intercultural communication, language acquisition, and language teaching and technology.