A Study of Chinese Immigrants as Second Language Learners in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights

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10.2991/assehr.k.200709.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Thomas Burke, Limehouse Nights, Chinese immigrants, Second language acquisition

Abstract

This paper takes character conversations in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights as research corpus and combines historical materials to analyze the second language acquisition phenomenon. Historical, cultural, and social factors shaping the characters’ acquisition and use of English will be explored. By moving away from the rigid opposition binary between self and other in the framework of Orientalism, the present paper yields a fresh understanding of Burke’s representation of Chinese characters from the perspective of linguistics.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanxin Wang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/09
TI  - A Study of Chinese Immigrants as Second Language Learners in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 123
EP  - 126
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200709.030
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200709.030
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