The Politics of Sound: The Tension between Dialect and Standard Language in Modern Chinese and Western Poetry and Its Literary Practice
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The Politics of SoundAbstract
In the development of modern poetry, the tension between dialect and standard language has shifted to an important dimension of sound politics. This article takes modern Chinese and Western poetry as the research object and explores the specific ways in which Chinese and Western poets use dialect and standard language to express political demands for cultural identity through dialogue. The article points out that the dialect writing in Western modern poetry often reflects local resistance to the construction of national consciousness, while Chinese modern poetry places more emphasis on the cultural adaptation politics and negotiation of dialect in the construction of the nation-state. Such research provides strong support for cross-cultural poetics. Through cross-cultural comparison, this article reveals that the tension between dialect and standard language is not only a matter of language choice but also a concentrated manifestation of the interaction between cultural politics, literature, and form in the modernity process. It offers a new research path for understanding the sound political language practice of modern poetry and has important implications for contemporary cross-cultural studies of language poetics, but it cannot fully cover all language phenomena.
