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Hsieh, Victoria Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation aims to understand the apparent failure of speech in post-Mao literature to fulfill its conventional functions of representation and communication. In order to understand this pattern, I begin by looking back on the utility of speech for nation-building in modern China. In addition to literary analysis of key authors and works,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries, Oral Language