Volume I About the Editors vii Contributors ix Alphabetical List of Entries xvii Thematic xxi Editor s Introduction xxv Language and Social Interaction A II III Z Index

Abstract Objective. Self-esteem is seldom recognized to be a culture-specific, historically situated idea, and parents' folk theories of self-esteem are rarely investigated empirically. This paper remedies these omissions by comparing European American Taiwanese mothers' beliefs about childrearing self-esteem. The substantive goals understand the variety meanings that mothers associate with delineate local contextualize this idea or offer alternatives. A related methodological goal develop...

This study investigates the perceptions and interpretations of social media online communication by students engaged in abroad programs. In-depth interviews were conducted analyzed with 23 American international who completed or a program. Results suggest that enhanced students' experience, providing help sociocultural skills, informational needs, relational bonds, psychological well-being. Different platforms preferred when communicating friends versus family intimates. Online between...

From 1945 until 1987, the KMT (Nationalist) government enforced its strict Mandarin Language Policy in schools throughout Taiwan, and students were forbidden to speak local languages or dialects. Recent reversal of this policy allows teach these formerly varieties. Despite some attention from scholars, it remains explore impact policies on successive generations bilingual speakers. This study explores perceptions parents, grandparents, young adults. The data show that school-based have an...

The goal of this study is to deepen our understanding a set narrative practices in European‐American families which young children's transgressions are downplayed or erased, pattern that cast relief by the frequent, foregrounded narration Taiwanese families. Evidence from mothers'folk theories used illuminate these patterns, revealing reversed with respect parental transgressions. Taipei mothers treat parents' past misdeeds as undermining adult authority and thereby not narratable children,...

This paper explores the impact that increased exposure to China during two and a half weeks of Beijing Olympics had on American attitudes towards China. A large N longitudinal survey revealed significant increase in negative from beginning end August 2008. Statistical analysis no dominant explanation for this change, however. Instead, personality (openness), ideology (social dominance orientation right wing authoritarianism), media each small changing attitudes. Further research (including...

Abstract The study investigates European American and Taiwanese grandmothers’ folk theories of childrearing self‐esteem, building on an earlier comparison mothers from the same families. Adopting methods that privilege local meanings, we bring voices into conversation about childrearing, thereby contributing to a deeper understanding intergenerational nuances in theories. In each cultural case, 16 grandmothers 3‐year‐olds participated in‐depth interviews were customized according...

Abstract One of the under-studied effects global migration has been an increase in transnational marriages. This phenomenon greatly impacted Taiwan as women from Southeast Asian nations and Mainland China, through professional marriage brokers or personal contacts, enter into marriages with Taiwanese men. How well these adapt to Taiwan's culture learn its local languages is studied lens two theories intercultural communication: Kim's theory cross-cultural adaptation Kramer's cultural fusion....

This study explored language shift and accommodation among bilingual Mandarin Tai-gi (also called Hokkien, Holo, Tai-gu, Taiwan Min, Taiwanese) families in Taiwan. From the 1940s until 1980s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on promoted Chinese. Recent years have witnessed a policy: since 2001 elementary schools throughout offered mother-tongue education as way to preserve maintain Taiwan's mother tongues. paper is based upon interviews with 58 parents who lived both urban rural locations...

Drawing on data derived from WeChat and the life experiences of its users, this study explores daily affordances in cross-border lives dual migrants Chinese mainland. In study, 24 low-skilled mainland who were working as security guards cleaners recruited to participate in-depth interviews group discussions. The these are marked politically, socially, economically by their vulnerable status stresses vicissitudes that characterize commute between Zhuhai (their place residence) Macao work)....

Culture is one of the foundations for existence Indonesia as a nation, it expressed in second stanza her national anthem. The government has taken an initiative to prioritize character building, which places education realize vision development. One efforts visualize this Indonesian constructed through Bukalapak advertisement entitled “Barongsai Indonesia, Juara Hati Membangun Negeri,” presented Kong Ha Hong lion dance group and was published via Youtube. This study aims see that values...

Recent scholarship on language socialization, Chinese kinship, and studies of personal address suggests that familial identities are constructed through common everyday interactions. Based upon data collected from ethnographic interviews participant‐observation, this study kinship is one way young children in Taiwan socialized into these identities. This also the meaning system or folk theory associated with practice can be readily articulated by caregivers, supports practice. Finally,...

Abstract This study investigates Euro-American and Taiwanese grandmothers' folk theories of their roles, discipline, advice giving. In each case, 16 grandmothers 3-year-old grandchildren participated in in-depth interviews that were customized according to local communicative norms. While both contexts engaged similar tasks perceived roles as distinct from mothers, interpretations these differed. saw companions grandchildren; they did not see themselves disciplinarians found giving...

Abstract In this study, I examined how mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in Taiwan narrated relational conflicts. The data consisted of narrative practices that emerged from open-ended interviews with 16 their daughters-in-law. These were analyzed as situated vocabularies motives, negotiated talk the interviewer. Findings indicate conflicts centered on issue challenging authority mother-in-law, hence violating hierarchical structuring society. Mothers-in-law justified motives upholding...

The role of social media in a resilient process is associated with the co-constitution structural forces and users' agency. During COVID-19, how women-particularly low-skilled labor migrants-used for empowerment underexplored. By taking socio-techno approach, this study qualitatively examines mobile phone-based usage among female mainland workers Macao when coping pandemic. enabling yet constraining has been identified through semi-structured interviews. Social use double-edged sword: on one...

'Little fresh meat' (LFM or xiǎo xiān ròu), which describes a masculine aesthetic rooted in 'soft masculinity', is phenomenon across Asia that challenges prevailing concepts of masculinity and patriarchal discourse. This study furthers previous research by using feminist critical discourse analysis to evaluate the construction LFM nonconformity, via data collected from 42 news articles China's English-language media, including: China Daily, Global Times, People's Daily Online, Shanghai...

Emotions-as-practices involve an open, embodied, and meaning-making process as digital technologies can shape transform how emotions are enacted. This study uses the concepts of emotional affordances affective practice in culture to investigate online experiences Chinese left-behind women living a rural location. From analysis Douyin (TikTok) video posts interviews with 18 participants, develops notion ‘ambivalent positivity’ manifested by overt conviviality repressed negativity distress...