TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guo,Zhiyan
TI  - Young Children as Intercultural Mediators: Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain
T2  - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
SN  - 9781783092147
AV  - P115 .Y686 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Clevedon
PB  - Channel View Publications
KW  - Bilingualism in children
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Language
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Languages
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Mandarin dialects
KW  - Translating and interpreting
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Migration and Acculturation; 2 Understanding Childhood; 3 Cultural Mediation; 4 Child Mediators and Their Families; 5 The Assimilative Level of Child Cultural Mediation; 6 The Appropriative Level of Child Cultural Mediation; 7 The Accommodative Level of Child Cultural Mediation; 8 Demystifying Child Cultural Mediation; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - This multidisciplinary approach to cultural mediation brings together insights from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and intercultural communication to offer a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents in immigrant families and of the informative aspects of their everyday lives. Furthermore, the family home setting offers the reader a gli
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