Publications

Publication details [#60265]

Gao, Xuesong. 2015. The ideological framing of ‘dialect’: an analysis of mainland China's state media coverage of ‘dialect crisis’ (2002–2012). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (5) : 468–482.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language variety | language vitality | mass media | standard1 vs. dialect2

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study deals with the ideological framing of ‘Chinese dialects’ or ‘regional Chinese varieties’ in the mainland China's state print media reports of ‘dialect crisis’ and the linked attempts to back the utilization of these ‘dialects’ from 2002 to 2012. The growing interest of individual citizens in China is presumed to thoroughly affect the vitality of regional Chinese varieties.