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Publication details [#53202]

Dong, Jie. 2010. The enregisterment of Putonghua in practice. Language & Communication 30 (4) : 265–275.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study discusses how the standardization of Putonghua constitutes an intentional institutional effort closely linked to the making of the nation, whilst at the same time being part of a more general and implicit ideological process – enregisterment – via which Putonghua's symbolic predominance is taken as natural and normative.