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.
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