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Publication details [#14772]

Blum, Susan D. 1997. Naming practices and the power of words in China. Language in Society 26 (3) : 357–379.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | kinship | naming1 | speech act theory

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article analyzes the active set of Chinese naming practices (more specifically, the use of proper names, kinship terminology, and pronouns), thereby illustrating the performative aspect of naming practices in relation to Chinese language ideology.