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Publication details [#35166]

Zhucheng, Ju. 1991. The "depreciation" and "appreciation" of some address terms in China. Language in Society 20 (3) : 387–390.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | language and culture | social class | sociolinguistics | status marker

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with rules governing the use of address terms in China before and after the Cultural Revolution, with a focus on changes in the address-system, mainly based on a two-class distinction, brought about by cultural changes.