English as Eastern: Zhuang, Mongolian, Mandarin, and English in the linguistic orders of globalized China-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

English as Eastern: Zhuang, Mongolian, Mandarin, and English in the linguistic orders of globalized China

Published:2021-09-01 Issue:271 Volume:2021 Page:35-64
ISSN:0165-2516
Container-title:International Journal of the Sociology of Language
language:en
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Author:

Grey Alexandra¹^ORCID,Baioud Gegentuul²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Technology Sydney , Sydney , Australia

2. Department of Linguistics , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia

Abstract

Abstract Socially constructed and globally propagated East-West binaries have influenced language ideologies about English in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they are not hegemonic. This essay explores how East-West language ideologies are reformed in mergers with Mandarin-minority language ideologies. It discusses two separate but similar recent studies of minority language speakers and language ideologies in the PRC, respectively by Grey and Baioud. Each study reveals aspects of how Mandarin and English are being socially constructed as on the same side of a dichotomous and hierarchic linguistic and social order, in contradistinction to minority languages. The essay thus problematizes the construction of English as a Western language and Mandarin as an Eastern language; both in academic discourses and in wider social and political discourses. The essay uses Asif Agha’s theory of “enregisterment” to unify the points drawn from each study. It concludes that the language ideologies and practices/discourses under examination reproduce the displacement of a subaltern status; we describe this process as dynamic, internal Orientalism and “recursive” Orientalism, drawing on foundational theory of language ideologies. This essay paves the way for further studies of recursive Orientalism.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ijsl-2020-0040/pdf

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