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Gender and Language Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI:10.1558/genl.20413

Andrew W. Ting

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本文探讨了北京普通话中的 "rhotacisation "及其在 2015 年中国热门网络剧《逆战》（Nìxí zhi Àishàng Qíngdí）中的使用！(Nìxí zhi Àishàng Qíngdí)中的使用情况。对北京专业人士社会语言变异的研究发现，北京话的 "rhotacisation"（音节代码的 r-colouring）代表了一种历史上与对话流畅性相关的本地男性形象："Smooth Operator"（流畅的操作者）。当前的分析在此基础上提出，rhotacisation 也可用于评估和展示性知识。在《反击！》中，"rhotacisation "的使用在风格上将 "Smooth Operator "中关于对话灵活性的含义融入了一个新的社会角色："Sexual Modern"。分析表明，这一变量--之前被认为是本地城市男性气质的指标--现在也成为了性现代性的指标。

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This article explores rhotacisation in Beijing Mandarin and its use in the popular 2015 Chinese web series Counterattack! (Nìxí zhi Àishàng Qíngdí), notable for its viral success in China despite overt homosexual representation. Research on sociolinguistic variation among professionals in Beijing has identified Beijing rhotacisation (the r-colouring of syllable codas) as indexing a local male persona historically linked to fluidity of conversation: the ‘Smooth Operator’. The current analysis builds on this claim to suggest that rhotacisation may also be used to evaluate and display sexual knowledge. The use of rhotacisation in Counterattack! stylistically incorporates ‘Smooth Operator’-imbued meanings of conversational dexterity into a new social persona: the ‘Sexual Modern’. The analysis suggests that this variable – previously discussed as indexing a local urban masculinity – has now also become indexical of sexual modernity.

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Gender and Language Multiple-

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