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Direct linkXiaoyan Guo; Lifeng Miao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Informed by Bourdieu's conceptualisation of habitus and its relation with social class, this study explores the construction and negotiation of middle-class identity among a group of urban overseas returnees in China. Using ethnographic interviews and online observational data, the study found that participants built a compliant identity…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Life Style, Social Class
Posel, Dorrit; Hunter, Mark; Rudwick, Stephanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In this study, we revisit the status of English relative to the African languages in South Africa by analysing new national data on the main language spoken outside the home. These data, which derive from the General Household Surveys of 2017 and 2018, complement commonly collected data on the main language spoken within the home. Our analysis…
Descriptors: Incidence, African Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
