Young children as intercultural mediators
Subtitle: Mandarin-speaking Chinese families in Britain
By: Zhiyan Guo
Series: Languages for intercultural communication and education
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781783092130; 9781783092123; 9781783092147
Subjects: Bilingualism in children; Intercultural communication; Children of immigrants; Language; Translating and interpreting; Chinese; Languages; Mandarin dialects
Notes: Originally presented as the authors thesis under title Young children as cultural mediators : a study of Mandarin speaking Chinese families in the UK [electronic resource].

Ph. D. Manchester Metropolitan University 2007

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Migration and acculturation; title: Chapter 2: Understanding childhood; title: Chapter 3: Cultural mediation; title: Chapter 4: Child mediators and their families; title: Chapter 5: The assimilative level of child cultural mediation; title: Chapter 6: The appropriative level of child cultural mediation; title: Chapter 7: The accommodative level of child cultural mediation; title: Chapter 8: Demystifying child cultural mediation.