Titel
Calculator communication in the markets of Guangzhou and beyond
Hongjie Dong
School of Liberal Arts, Xi’an University
Abstract
The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source communities and their host communities. In this process, communication problems are inevitable, since Africans and Chinese do not share a common lingua franca in most cases. However, these communities have succeeded in devising some interactive strategies that turn out to be quite effective, especially in market situations, one of them being calculator communication (CM). This paper looks at these strategies in the context of contact linguistics and the emergence of some hybrid language that has elements of African languages, Chinese, and English.
Stichwort
AfricansChinesepidginGuangzhoucalculator communication
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1201091
Erschienen in
Titel
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
ISSN
0143-4632
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Seitenanfang
1
Seitenende
12
Publication
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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