Reading Chinese fortune cookie : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / LuMing Mao.
"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 scholarships tends to explain such influences as contributing t...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Logan, UT :
Utah State University Press,
©2006.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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 scholarships 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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874215380 0874215382 9781283283519 1283283514 9780874216400 |