Language and Social Change in China George Kriz and diaspora

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Language and Social Change in China George Kriz and diasporaLanguage and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarinoffers 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