Constructing ‘corrupted village wives and urban men’ through multilingual performances

Abstract This article analyzes the sociolinguistic construction of two gendered figures in multilingual performances, namely a category young Mongol wives rural societies who challenge patriarchal social order, and group urban men whose dream is to be rich indulge themselves luxury. By drawing on analytical framework stance stylization, study how performers’ multivalent stance-taking towards constructed personas specific social-moral orders are communicated through their skillful stylization resources Inner Mongolia. It also points out that language stance-taking, taking place reference local cultural values linguistic ideologies, anchored continually evolving ethnic, gender, class relationships changing, minoritized Mongolian society context Chinese modernization capitalist marketization. (Stance-taking, discourses, Mongols, multilingualism)*