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Author Guo, Zhiyan, 1971-

Title Young Children as Intercultural Mediators : Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain.

Publication Info. Clevedon : Channel View Publications, 2014.
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Description 1 online resource (212 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education ; v. 26
Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 26.
Contents Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Migration and Acculturation; 2 Understanding Childhood; 3 Cultural Mediation; 4 Child Mediators and Their Families; 5 The Assimilative Level of Child Cultural Mediation; 6 The Appropriative Level of Child Cultural Mediation; 7 The Accommodative Level of Child Cultural Mediation; 8 Demystifying Child Cultural Mediation; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Index.
Summary 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 gli.
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Subject Bilingualism in children -- Great Britain.
Bilingualism in children.
Great Britain.
Children of immigrants -- Great Britain -- Language.
Children of immigrants.
Chinese -- Great Britain -- Languages.
Chinese.
Language and languages.
Intercultural communication -- Great Britain.
Mandarin dialects -- Great Britain.
Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain.
Intercultural communication.
Mandarin dialects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Translating and interpreting.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Children of immigrants -- Language.
Chinese -- Languages.
Other Form: Print version: Guo, Zhiyan. Young Children as Intercultural Mediators : Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain. Clevedon : Channel View Publications, ©2014
ISBN 9781783092147 (electronic book)
1783092149 (electronic book)

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