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Linguistic Entrepreneurship in Sino-African Student Mobility

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Abstract

1. Introduction -- 2. International student mobilities (ISM) and African students in China -- 3. Setting the context: The hierarchical ordering of languages in the world -- 4. The logic of linguistic exchanges and model of investment -- 5. Chinese language ideologies reflected in African students' discourses -- 6. Discourses on Chinese as 'linguistic capital' -- 7. Sleepless in China: Linguistic investment and a burden of perfectionism -- 8. Transcending time and space: new images of the world and self -- 9. Conclusions and implications.

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