Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article investigates voice making of Chinese transcontinental emigrants in intercultural communication from a Chinese perspective. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, I study new Chinese emigrants who have moved upward to the middle layers of the Chinese society, and now move out of the country by mobilizing their economic, educational, linguistic, and cultural resources. I present two cases to demonstrate the new emigrants’ use of languages in voice making processes. The results indicate that the new Chinese emigrants are highly mobile, both geographically and socially; they display diverse kinds of voicing possibilities and align with different cultures through nuanced use of languages and language varieties; further, they exercise increasingly more influences both on the receiving society and on the sending society.
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