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Zhang, Qing.

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Changing economy, changing markets: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese yuppies.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Changing economy, changing markets: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese yuppies./
作者:	Zhang, Qing.
面頁冊數:	188 p.
附註:	Adviser: Penelope Eckert.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-10A.
標題:	Language, Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3028219
ISBN:	0493405437

Changing economy, changing markets: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese yuppies.
Zhang, Qing.

Changing economy, changing markets: A sociolinguistic study of Chinese yuppies. - 188 p.

Adviser: Penelope Eckert.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2001.

Over the past two decades, the rapid globalization of Mainland China has led to the establishment of a new international business sector, and with it a new professional group—Chinese professionals working for foreign businesses. The mid- and upper-echelon of this group is called <italic> yapishi</italic> ‘Chinese yuppies’. This dissertation examines the linguistic behavior of a group of yuppies in Beijing. Sociolinguistic variation methodology is used to explore how speakers employ linguistic resources to construct their yuppie style and identity.

ISBN: 0493405437Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

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520 $a Participants in the study, all native speakers of Beijing Mandarin, consist of fourteen yuppies and, for purposes of comparison, fourteen managerial level professionals in state enterprises. The speech data are collected by means of tape-recorded sociolinguistic interviews. Quantitative analyses using the Variable Rule program are carried out on four phonological variables: three local Beijing Mandarin features and a new tone feature that shows an influence from non Mainland Mandarin varieties.
520 $a Statistical analyses show that by virtue of their participation in the “transnational Chinese linguistic market”, the yuppies are developing a deterritorialized variety of Mandarin. This new variety is characterized by a decreased use of local Beijing features and the adoption of the full tone. Furthermore, gender difference is mild among the state professionals but dramatic among the yuppies. Female yuppies overwhelmingly lead in the use of the new Mandarin variety. Explanations for this dramatic gender difference are sought through the difference in women's and men's career trajectories and the linguistic resources available to them. The study has shown that patterns of linguistic variation are related to the interaction between the various constraints and opportunities which the yuppies face in the international business sector and their active appropriation of linguistic resources to construct a Chinese yuppie style and identity.
520 $a This dissertation challenges the traditional approach to sociolinguistic variation by examining the interaction among multiple aspects of social identity and the active role of individuals in the linguistic construction of their identities. The study pays particular attention to the social history of linguistic variables as well as the history of social identities. This dissertation contributes to the recent development of a practice-based approach to sociolinguistic variation that treats communities and identities as constructed through shared practices and orientation.
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