Rhotacization and the 'Beijing Smooth Operator': The social meaning of a linguistic variable 1

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-222

  Zhang, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Character type; Ideology; Linguistic variable; Mandarin Chinese; Meaning potential; Rhotacization; Social meaning; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149171855     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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