‘Every day a new shop pops up’ – South Africa's ‘New’ Chinese Diaspora and the Multilingual Transformation of Rural Towns

Deumert, Ana; Mabandla, Nkululeko

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“…In this paper, we have focused on a relatively new communication pattern between African and Chinese traders in the most dynamic markets of Guangzhou. There are also a few works done within similar contexts focusing on Chinese in Africa such as Deumert and Mabandla (2013), Thompson (2018), and Thompson and Anthonissen (2019). Many Africans, coming from the world's most multilingual areas, are surprised on their first visit to China to find that Chinese people in Guangzhou speak very little English and hardly any French at all.…”

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Calculator communication in the markets of Guangzhou and beyond

Bodomo

Che

Dong

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source communities and their host communities. In this process, communication problems are inevitable, since Africans and Chinese do not share a common lingua franca in most cases. However, these communities have succeeded in devising some interactive strategies that turn out to be quite effective, especially in market situations, one of them being calculator communication (CM). This paper looks at these strategies in the context of contact linguistics and the emergence of some hybrid language that has elements of African languages, Chinese, and English.

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Calculator communication in the markets of Guangzhou and beyond

Bodomo

Che

Dong

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…English emerges as the most common means of communication between shop assistants and customers. Deumert and Mabandla (2013;2015) describe language and migration in relation to the new diaspora of Chinese in rural contextsthat of the Eastern Cape and Free State provinces respectively. The authors claim the Chinese in the Eastern Cape are a noticeably more diverse and divided grouping in terms of languages and places of origin compared to the more cohesive earlier Chinese diasporas in South Africa.…”

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Práticas de língua e mudança linguística entre migrantes transnacionais para a África do Sul, 1990-2020

Mesthrie

Brookes

2021

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Este artigo revisa pesquisas sobre o uso da língua entre migrantes transnacionais da África do Sul desde 1990, tomando isso como um ponto de partida conveniente como o ano do primeiro anúncio oficial da renúncia ao apartheid, levando ao seu desmantelamento legal em 1994. Considerando que a África do Sul havia incentivado a migração europeia para o país, a migração limitada da Ásia (principalmente de Taiwan) e uma migração circular controlada de trabalhadores de mineração de países vizinhos da África do Sul, ela então experimentou uma escala maior de fluxos globais de outras partes do mundo que não eram permitidos durante o apartheid. O resultado foi um aumento ainda maior na diversidade de línguas nas comunidades locais. Este artigo fornece uma visão geral das principais preocupações e ênfases dos pesquisadores ao cobrirem novas migrações da Ásia e do resto da África para a África do Sul.

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“…It is also worth noting that, the so‐called Chinese community does not form a homogenous group, not just because of their diverse migration history, but also, as Lou () shows, there are tensions and disagreements among Chinese immigrants; they are differently positioned in this process of transformation due to their different economic status and political stance (see also Gao, ). In another study of Chinese immigrants in South Africa, Deumert and Mabandla () show that the Chinese community is not only diverse, with people from different Chinese language backgrounds (mutually unintelligible) but also has weak connection (Deumert & Mabandla, : 46). Such complex pattern in the ethnic community is also shown in Nie's () research into racism in the Netherlands.…”

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The sociolinguistics of globalizing China

Gao

2017

Language and Linguist. Compass

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The sociolinguistics of globalization has emerged as an important research paradigm in response to the challenges of global social change. As a country undergoing some of the most drastic changes during the past few decades, China provides a rich site for exploring the issue of language and globalization empirically and theoretically. This article seeks to map out the new socio-cultural values being produced or re-conceptualized in the process of China's transformation, with a view to understand the materiality of language use under the current conditions of global economy and geopolitics. It reviews recent research mainly from four perspectives: identity, social stratification and consumerism; English and neoliberal globalization; diversity, ethnicity and race; state and nationalism, and concludes with suggestions for future research. | INTRODUCTIONSince the turn of the century, there has been increasing reflection upon knowledge construction within sociolinguistics. This re-thinking and re-imagination of the discipline derives largely from the growing awareness that despite its claim to study language in society, sociolinguists have been confining themselves mostly to isolated speech communities in their search for uncontaminated authentic data (Bucholtz, 2003;Eckert, 2003;Rampton, 2010). Such disciplinary bias has become all the more alarming due to the social change we are witnessing during the past few decades in relation to globalization. This is because globalization has not brought about a more homogeneous or uniform society (Blommaert, 2010: 1); instead, as a historical process, it involves "complex flow of people, signs, sounds and images across multiple borders in multiple directions" (Pennycook, 2011: 513), resulting in complex social relations, increasing diversity, and unpredictable consequences (Blommaert &This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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‘Every day a new shop pops up’ – South Africa's ‘New’ Chinese Diaspora and the Multilingual Transformation of Rural Towns

Cited by 45 publications

References 10 publications

Calculator communication in the markets of Guangzhou and beyond

Calculator communication in the markets of Guangzhou and beyond

Práticas de língua e mudança linguística entre migrantes transnacionais para a África do Sul, 1990-2020

The sociolinguistics of globalizing China

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