Language Socialization in Chinese Diasporas: Indexicality of Confucian Ideologies in Family Talk

The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Drawing upon the approach that regards talk as a form of social practice, the book demonstrates different ways in which kin relationships are indigenously orchestrated by foreign Chinese parents and their American-born children.

Micro-analytically, social actions of membership categorization, attribution, deference, c...