Transnational Traders’ Discourse: Informal Language Policy Emerging in a South African Chinatown

Thompson, Miché; Anthonissen, Christine

doi:10.1080/10228195.2018.1541926

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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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“…Although little is known about the language contact and practices among more affluent Chinese entrepreneurs with international business connections, there are several studies of language practices among new poorer immigrants, mostly involved in retail, who run small businesses in both urban areas and rural towns across South Africa. Thompson (2018;2019) and Thompson and Anthonissen (2019) discuss the communication (or -more often -minimal communication) in business and trading contexts in the local Chinatowns (i.e. large Chinese shopping complexes) in Cape Town.…”

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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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“…Kemudian, terkait dengan analisis perilaku, secara umum masih terbatas pada perilaku kreasi sosial (Salhi, 2018) atau pada perilaku kewirausahaan mahasiswa (Ahmadi, Defit, & Na"am, 2018). Selain itu, ada analisis yang membahas kontekstualisasi pedagang pasar tradisional untuk mempertahankan hubungan dan komunikasi sosial (Saudah, 2018); wacana pedagang transnasional (Thompson & Anthonissen, 2019). Beberapa penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa studi bahasa pedagang masih terbatas, terutama perilaku bahasa pedagang dalam mengungkapkan proses eksistensial.…”

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Mempelajari Perilaku Bahasa Pedagang Angkola Dalam Mengungkapkan Proses Eksistensial

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2021

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Tujuan utama dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan perilaku bahasa pedagang Angkola dalam mengungkap proses eksistensialnya. Mengingat pedagang adalah orang-orang yang sangat sibuk dan sangat menghargai waktu, di sini akan diungkap bagaimana pedagang mengedepankan eksistensi terhadap sesuatu secara lisan. Penelitian ini menawarkan agar studi kasus ini dapat dianalisis dengan menggunakan pendekatan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Datanya diperoleh dari dua belas pedagang Angkola, enam orang laki-laki dan enam orang perempuan, melalui wawancara yang ditranskrip dan dianalisis dengan analisis transitivitas. Temuannya berupa pola proses eksistensial yang ditemukan adalah pola standar (proses + eksisten) beserta pola variannya, pola inversi (eksisten + proses) beserta pola variannya, dan pola proses (eksistennya lesap atau morfem zero (ø)). Selanjutnya, proses yang muncul adalah adong 'ada' dan nadong 'tidak ada' beserta variannya. Tidak ditemukan data yang menunjukkan adalanya terdapat dan muncul sebagai penanda lain dari proses eksistensial. Lebih lanjut lagi, pengalaman eksistensi dan non-eksistensi pedagang dapat terungkap dari jumlah konstituen proses yang muncul beserta pilihan diksi yang digunakan. Semoga, hasil penelitian ini dapat menambah kerangka teoretis dalam mengenali ciri-ciri karakter pedagang di bidang ekonomi dan juga pengayaan teoretis SFL sebagai pendekatan yang dapat mengungkapkan pola bahasa di berbagai bidang.

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Transnational Traders’ Discourse: Informal Language Policy Emerging in a South African Chinatown

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 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

Mempelajari Perilaku Bahasa Pedagang Angkola Dalam Mengungkapkan Proses Eksistensial

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