Conflicting notions of language purity: The interplay of archaising, ethnographic, reformist, elitist and xenophobic purism in the perception of Standard Chinese

Language and Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-133

  Li, Chris Wen Chao ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Language attitudes; Language change; Language planning; Language standardization; Mandarin; Standard dialects

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342263630     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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