Hineseness As A Competitive Disadvantage
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Muji
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Author : Masaaki Kanai
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 2010
Muji written by Masaaki Kanai and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Branding (Marketing) categories.
This fascinating monograph provides an unprecedented view into the inner workings of Muji, one of the most influential brands leading sustainable design.
The Linguistic Landscape Of Chinatown
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Author : Jackie Jia Lou
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2016-05-12
The Linguistic Landscape Of Chinatown written by Jackie Jia Lou and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public policies, it provides an in-depth study of the production and consumption of linguistic landscape as a cultural text. Following a geosemiotic analysis of shop signs, it traces the multiple historical trajectories of discourse which shaped the bilingual landscape of the neighbourhood. Turning to the spatial contexts, it then compares and contrasts the situated meaning of the linguistic landscape for residents, community organisers and urban planners.
Linguistic Landscape In The City
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Author : Elana Shohamy
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2010-07-29
Linguistic Landscape In The City written by Elana Shohamy and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.
Ethnic Chinese As Southeast Asians
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Author : Leo Suryadinata
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 1997
Ethnic Chinese As Southeast Asians written by Leo Suryadinata and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
More than 80 per cent of the Chinese outside China live in Southeast Asia and many of them have been integrated into the local societies. However, the resurgence of China and ethnic Chinese investment in their ancestral land have caused concern among some non-Chinese Southeast Asian elites. They have begun to question the position and identity of the Chinese population in their countries. Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians addresses these ethnic Chinese issues, as well as ethnic Chinese relations with China and with indigenous groups in the region. Written by leading scholars in Southeast Asia, including both ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese, the volume also explores the position of the ethnic Chinese in contemporary as well as the future Southeast Asia, providing readers with a most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the subject.
World Order
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Author : Henry Kissinger
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-09-09
World Order written by Henry Kissinger and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with Political Science categories.
“Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book.” —Walter Isaacson, Time "An astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues." —Kirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades—Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. There has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy—a conviction that has guided its policies ever since. Now international affairs take place on a global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension. Grounded in Kissinger’s deep study of history and his experience as national security advisor and secretary of state, World Order guides readers through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon administration’s negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reagan’s tense debates with Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavík. He offers compelling insights into the future of U.S.–China relations and the evolution of the European Union, and he examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear negotiations with Iran through the West’s response to the Arab Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine, World Order anchors Kissinger’s historical analysis in the decisive events of our time. Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with geopolitical prognostication, World Order is a unique work that could come only from a lifelong policy maker and diplomat. Kissinger is also the author of On China.
Chinese Indonesians Reassessed
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Author : Siew-Min Sai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Chinese Indonesians Reassessed written by Siew-Min Sai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Chinese categories.
The book shows how the Chinese minority is much more diverse, and the picture much richer and more complicated, than previous studies have allowed. Subjects covered include the historical development of Chinese communities in peripheral areas of Indonesia, the religious practices of Chinese Indonesians, which are by no means confined to "Chinese" religions, and Chinese ethnic events, where a wide range of Indonesians, not just Chinese, participate.
Linguistic Landscapes
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Author : Peter Backhaus
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Linguistic Landscapes written by Peter Backhaus and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs. It provides an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo. Linguistic Landscapes demonstrates that the study of language on signs provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism.
Ethnography Superdiversity And Linguistic Landscapes
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Author : Jan Blommaert
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Ethnography Superdiversity And Linguistic Landscapes written by Jan Blommaert and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.
Language Identity And Social Division
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Author : Eliezer Ben Rafael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Language Identity And Social Division written by Eliezer Ben Rafael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The shift to Hebrew as a national language is at the root of the creation of Israel, yet many Jewish immigrants still use the language of their country of origin. Ultra-orthodox communities retain their own codes, and the use of Arabic remains a clear marker of the Israeli-Arab town and village. At the same time Israel's position in international affairs has encouraged a wide penetration of the society, along class lines, by languages of world-wide communication. These very same languages, for example English and French, have different values in their local context, and play active and different roles in the formation of social boundaries. In his analysis, Ben-Rafael focuses on linguistic resources and symbols which reflect and reveal the complex structure of class, ethnic, religious, and national identities and cleavages in Israeli society. More generally, he uses the Israeli case to show how sociolinguistic ideas may be related to sociological approaches to test some general sociological propositions about social aspects of language use.
Multiple Globalizations Linguistic Landscapes In World Cities
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Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26
Multiple Globalizations Linguistic Landscapes In World Cities written by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Political Science categories.
This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism – each one conveying its own distinct linguistic markers: international codes, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. Eliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael study the configurations of these influences, which they conceptualize as multiple globalization, in the LLs of downtowns, residential quarters, and marginal neighborhoods of a number of world-cities. They ask how far worldwide codes of communication gain preeminence, national languages are marginalized and ethnic vernaculars impactful. They conclude by suggesting a paradigm of multiple globalizations.