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Young Children as Intercultural Mediators Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 26.Publication details: Clevedon : Channel View Publications, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783092147
  • 1783092149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • P115.5.7 .86 2014
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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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