Reading Chinese fortune cookie the making of Chinese American rhetoric
LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to l...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Logan, UT :
Utah State University Press
c2006.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Subjects: | |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432626906719 |
| Summary: | LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to language hybridity---an advance over the traditional ""deficit model."" But Mao suggests that the ""hybridity"" approach is perhaps too arid or sanitized, missing rich nuances of mutual exchange, resistance, or even subversion. Working from Ang's concept of ""togetherness in difference |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283283519 9786613283511 9780874215380 |
