Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness Through Cosmopolitan Mandarin

by Qing Zhang

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415708087
• ISBN13: 9780415708081
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"