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Publication details [#49990]

Hou, Jinxiang. 2007. Catchwords as markers of change in China. English Today 23 (3-4) : 50–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language change | language use | loanword | psychological explanation

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that catchwords, whether developed within a specific language and/or adopted from a foreign language via translation or transliteration, spread rapidly within Chinese discourse within a particular group, time and context, as markers of change.