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Language and social change in China : undoing commonness through cosmopolitan Mandarin / Qing Zhang.
Author
Zhang, Qing
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018
Description
xiv,198 pages ; 23 cm
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P40.5.L542 C35 2018
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Linguistic change
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China
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Language and culture
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China
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Chinese language
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Social aspects
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Chinese language
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Dialects
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Mandarin
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Sociolinguistics
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China
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Summary note
Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial role of language in shaping the sociocultural landscape of contemporary China. Based on a wide range of data collected since the 1990s and grounded in quantitative and discourse analyses of sociolinguistic variation, Qing Zhang tracks the emergence of what she terms "Cosmopolitan Mandarin" as a new stylistic resource for a rising urban elite and a new middle-class consumption-based lifestyle. The book powerfully illuminates that Cosmopolitan Mandarin participates in dismantling the pre-reform, socialist, conformist society by bringing about new social distinctions. Rich in cultural and linguistic details, the book is the first of its kind to highlight the implications of language change on the social order and cultural life of contemporary China. Language and Social Change in China is ideal for students and scholars interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and Chinese language and society. Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1 Sociolinguistic Change, Style, and Ideology 20
2 Beijing Yuppies: The New Business Elite 46
3 Cosmopolitan Mandarin in the Making of Beijing Yuppies 61
4 Cosmopolitan Mandarin in the Making of a New Chinese Middle-Class Consumer 105
5 Warring Standards: Contesting the Enregisterment of Cosmopolitan Mandarin 134
6 A Style-Based Approach to Sociolinguistic Change 177.
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ISBN
9780415708074 (hardcover)
0415708079 (hardcover)
9780415708081 (paperback)
0415708087 (paperback)
LCCN
2017011981
OCLC
968773038
Other standard number
99973693838
40027594105
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