Language contact as language ideology: the case of Pǔtōnghuà and Bái

• Hefright, Brook ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Maryland, College Park
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 215, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Contact between Putonghua and Minority Languages in China), págs. 141-158
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article explores the negotiation of discourses of ethnicity and language standardization among users of Bái in Yúnnán Province. Drawing on Kloss's (1967) Ausbau and Abstand, I compare texts in which language users represent their vernacular in orthography and in Chinese characters to demonstrate the asymmetrical projection of a Standard vs. non-Standard opposition and a Sinitic vs. non-Sinitic opposition from the national to the local level. Theorizing these asymmetries in terms of Irvine and Gal's (2000) fractal recursivity and Silverstein's (2003) indexical order, I discuss how they simultaneously index language users' social positions and demonstrate their orientation toward broader discourses.