Publications

Publication details [#42615]

Zhang, Qing. 2005. A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity. Language in Society 34 (3) : 431–466.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language variety | professional language | social change | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study on phonological variation and social change shows that Chinese professionals in foreign businesses use both local and global linguistic resources to build a new cosmopolitan Mandarin variety, whilst their colleagues in state-owned businesses prefer to employ local features.