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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151709303321

Autore

Yang Bingjun

Titolo

Language policy : a systemic functional linguistic apporach / / Bingjun Yang and Rui Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-43691-4

1-315-43693-0

1-315-43692-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 pages) : illustrations

Collana

China Perspectives

Altri autori (Persone)

WangRui <1983->

Disciplina

306.44/951

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching - China

Language and education - China

Language policy - China - History

Functionalism (Linguistics) - China

China Languages Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. History of and approaches to language policy -- 3. Justifications for approaching language policy from the SFL perspective -- 4. The principles of an SFL approach to language policy -- 5. Approaching language policy from an SFL perspective -- 6. Case study 1 : language policy in early years of PRC -- 7. Case study 2 : language policy in modern times of PRC -- 8. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, research has prospered in the study of language policy. However, there are still many problems behind this prosperity. This book, a trailblazer for academic researchers in the fields of language policy and SFL (Systemic Functional Linguistics) as applicable linguistics, could provide different angles for language policy and offer a valuable attempt to test SFL as applicable linguistics. This book also explores many typical controversial issues in Chinese language policy with the SFL approach, such as ongoing conflicts between Putonghua and dialects. It not only addresses authentic problems emerging from the implementation process of Chinese language policy, but also has produced some feasible and customized suggestions to improve



Chinese language policy.