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Publication details [#51681]

Stanford, James N. 2009. “Eating the food of our place”: Sociolinguistic loyalties in multidialectal Sui villages. Language in Society 38 (3) : 287–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language and culture | language maintenance | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that a tempered, culturally sensitive model is required to explore the descent-group sociolinguistic loyalties of speakers in the multidialectal, clan-based southwestern Chinese Sui culture.