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Record Nr.

UNINA9910350280703321

Autore

Zhou Minglang

Titolo

Language Ideology and Order in Rising China / / by Minglang Zhou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9789811334832

9811334838

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 pages)

Disciplina

306.449

Soggetti

Asia - Languages

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Asia - Politics and government

Asian Languages

Asian Culture

Asian Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Rising China -- Defining Language Ideology and Language Order -- Synchronizing the Chinese Language -- Harmonizing Linguistic Diversity -- Evaluating Languages -- Reordering Languages along China's Borders -- Promoting Chinese across Borders -- Outreaching to Overseas Chinese Communities -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This text considers contemporary China's language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China's language order unfolds on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic growth and military expansion. Within the conceptual framework of language ideology and language order and using PRC policy documents, education annals, and fieldwork, this book explores how China's language ideology is related to its growing global power as well as its domestic and global outreaches. It also addresses how this ideology has been materialized as a language order in terms of



institutional development and support, and what impact these choices are having on China and the world. Focusing on the relationship between language ideology and language order, the book highlights a closer and coherent linguistic association between China's domestic drive and global outreach since the turn ofthe century. .