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Language Rights in a Changing China - A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (Hardcover): Alexandra Grey Language Rights in a Changing China - A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (Hardcover)
Alexandra Grey
R3,423 Discovery Miles 34 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity. The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a study of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A. Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study "decenter[s] all types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond China.

Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim - Critical Essays (Paperback): Jane Ford, Alexandra Gray Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim - Critical Essays (Paperback)
Jane Ford, Alexandra Gray
R1,274 Discovery Miles 12 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931) was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the 'broad church' priest and well-known Victorian author Charles Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published work. This collection brings together for the first time a selection of scholarly essays on Malet's life and writing, foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology, religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about fin-de-siecle women's writing. The collection asks the question 'who was Lucas Malet?' and 'how-despite its popularity-did her courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for so long?'

Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim - Critical Essays (Hardcover): Jane Ford, Alexandra Gray Lucas Malet, Dissident Pilgrim - Critical Essays (Hardcover)
Jane Ford, Alexandra Gray
R3,873 Discovery Miles 38 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931) was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the 'broad church' priest and well-known Victorian author Charles Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published work. This collection brings together for the first time a selection of scholarly essays on Malet's life and writing, foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology, religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about fin-de-siecle women's writing. The collection asks the question 'who was Lucas Malet?' and 'how-despite its popularity-did her courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for so long?'

Language and Globalization - Critical Concepts in Linguistics (Hardcover): Ingrid Piller, Alexandra Grey Language and Globalization - Critical Concepts in Linguistics (Hardcover)
Ingrid Piller, Alexandra Grey
R31,004 Discovery Miles 310 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A relatively new yet flourishing field, Language and Globalization can be confusing and difficult to navigate for students and scholars. To help make sense of the diverse and voluminous scholarship, this new four volume collection will include key research from a broad spectrum of disciplines, but also from a wide range of geographical, regional and historical contexts.

Language Rights in a Changing China - A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (Paperback): Alexandra Grey Language Rights in a Changing China - A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (Paperback)
Alexandra Grey
R681 R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Save R93 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity. The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a study of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A. Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study "decenter[s] all types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond China.

Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Hardcover): Alexandra Gray Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Hardcover)
Alexandra Gray
R2,333 Discovery Miles 23 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman. Focusing on self-starvation, excessive drinking and self-mutilation, this study explores narratives of female resistance to Victorian patriarchy embedded in the work of both canonical and largely unknown women writers of the 1880s and 1890s, including Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross. The book argues that the conditions of modernity now associated with self-harm in twentieth-century psychiatry (but beginning at the Fin de Siecle) provided the socio-cultural backdrop for a surge of interest in self-harm as a site of imaginative exploration at a time when women's role in society was rapidly changing.

Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Paperback): Alexandra Gray Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Paperback)
Alexandra Gray
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Traces Victorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fiction Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman. Focusing on self-starvation, excessive drinking and self-mutilation, this study explores narratives of female resistance to Victorian patriarchy embedded in the work of both canonical and largely unknown women writers of the 1880s and 1890s, including Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross. The book argues that the conditions of modernity now associated with self-harm in twentieth-century psychiatry (but beginning at the Fin de Siecle) provided the socio-cultural backdrop for a surge of interest in self-harm as a site of imaginative exploration at a time when women's role in society was rapidly changing. Key Features Highly interdisciplinary, combining medical history, archival and periodical research, art history, gender studies and literary studies Re-assessment of well-known New Woman authors as well as original research into newly discovered New Woman authors First book-length examination of self-harm in Victorian literary fiction First study to suggest that Victorian self-harm (broadly speaking) can be traced through an engagement with literary fiction long before its emergence as a clinical category of behavior in the twentieth century Reappraisal of New Woman studies suggesting some of the ways very different types of New Woman writing converged around a single thematic concern, and attempts to account for this in socio-historic (and formal) terms Detailed discussion of the work of Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross, two comparatively unknown authors (almost no scholarly work currently exists on Dickens's writing)

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