Thurston, T (2018) The Purist Campaign as Metadiscursive Regime in China's Tibet. Inner Asia, 20 (2). pp. 199-218. ISSN 1464-8172
Abstract
Tibetans in twenty-first-century China have engaged in an increasingly high-profile campaign to promote language purity. In this purity campaign, Tibetan comedians and rappers have encouraged their audiences to speak pure Tibetan, and a host of neologisms have been coined to help people speak Tibetan even in modern contexts. Although coining new terms involves tremendous innovation, Tibetans almost uniformly view purism in this fashion as promoting traditional knowledge and practices considered to be under threat. This paper examines Tibetan media discourses on language purity to understand the development of new metadiscursive regimes in Tibet that link otherwise contemporary values like language purity with the preservation of Tibetan traditions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2018. This is an author produced version of an article published in Inner Asia. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Amdo; language ideologies; China's Tibet; language purism; verbal hygiene; metadiscursive regimes |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > East Asian Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2018 09:59 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Brill |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/22105018-12340107 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133922 |