03830nam 2200613 450 991046365440332120211016001646.03-11-092459-510.1515/9783110924596(CKB)3390000000034680(EBL)3043513(OCoLC)922946686(SSID)ssj0001124233(PQKBManifestationID)11666922(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001124233(PQKBWorkID)11085558(PQKB)10521071(MiAaPQ)EBC3043513(DE-B1597)56314(OCoLC)979832068(DE-B1597)9783110924596(Au-PeEL)EBL3043513(CaPaEBR)ebr10772593(EXLCZ)99339000000003468020030626d2003 uy| 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMultilingualism in China the politics of writing reforms for minority languages, 1949-2002 /by Minglang ZhouBerlin ;New York :Mouton de Gruyter,2003.1 online resource (480 p.)Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ;89Description based upon print version of record.3-11-017896-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-446) and indexes.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 personsMinglang 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 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.Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]Linguistic minoritiesGovernment policyChinaMultilingualismChinaElectronic books.Linguistic minoritiesGovernment policyMultilingualism306.44/951Zhou Minglang1954-695054MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463654403321Multilingualism in China1251274UNINA