Language Socialization in Chinese Diasporas

<p>The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los Angeles California U.S.A. Drawing upon the approach that regards talk as a form of social practice the book demonstrates different ways in which kin relationships are indigenously orchestrated by foreign Chinese parents and their American-born children. </p><p>Micro-analytically social actions of membership categorization attribution deference compliance commands and story-telling that unfold in kin interactions are foregrounded as key language devices to discuss ways in which epistemic asymmetry power hierarchy and harmony in kin relations are constructed or deconstructed in Chinese diasporic social lives. By way of illustration the monograph macro-analytically speaks to the cultural stereotype of Chinese immigrant/foreign parents’ style of parenting when they pass on the traditional Confucian ideologies in kin interaction.</p><p>This book can be a useful reference textbook for graduate courses that address the dynamic intricacy among language culture and society.</p>