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Zhou Minglang <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Multilingualism in China : the politics of writing reforms for minority languages, 1949-2002 / / by Minglang Zhou |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (480 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 89 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Linguistic minorities - Government policy - China |
Multilingualism - China |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-446) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and names of minorities in China -- Map 1. Distribution of Minority Nationalities and Languages in China -- Map 2 China: Autonomous regions and prefectures -- Chapter 1. Minorities and minority languages in China -- Chapter 2. The politics of minority language policy, 1949-2002 -- Chapter 3. The politics of the status of writing systems: Official, experimental, or unofficial -- Chapter 4. Choices of scripts and theories of writing systems: East vs. West -- Chapter 5. The politics of vernacular writing systems -- Chapter 6. The politics of traditional and reformed writing systems -- Chapter 7. Modernization: The politics and sociolinguistics of Chinese loanwords and minority language orthography -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Index of (officially recognized) minority nationalities and minority languages in China -- Index of names of influential persons |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process. It documents how different script reforms meet dramatically different fates according to local preferences, history, cross-border ties, and the vitality of previously-used scripts. It convincingly shows that no single variable is decisive in the success of a script, and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure, without |
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careful coordination of extra-code factors. It also documents the little-known Sino-Soviet cooperation in the area of writing reforms. In a style accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Zhou's book is of interest to language planners, sinologists, applied linguists, writing theorists, and ethnologists. |
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