LEADER 03830nam 2200613 450 001 9910463654403321 005 20211016001646.0 010 $a3-11-092459-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110924596 035 $a(CKB)3390000000034680 035 $a(EBL)3043513 035 $a(OCoLC)922946686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001124233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11666922 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001124233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11085558 035 $a(PQKB)10521071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3043513 035 $a(DE-B1597)56314 035 $a(OCoLC)979832068 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110924596 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3043513 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10772593 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000034680 100 $a20030626d2003 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMultilingualism in China $ethe politics of writing reforms for minority languages, 1949-2002 /$fby Minglang Zhou 210 1$aBerlin ;$aNew York :$cMouton de Gruyter,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (480 p.) 225 0 $aContributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ;$v89 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-017896-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [407]-446) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgements --$tContents --$tList of tables --$tAbbreviations and names of minorities in China --$tMap 1. Distribution of Minority Nationalities and Languages in China --$tMap 2 China: Autonomous regions and prefectures --$tChapter 1. Minorities and minority languages in China --$tChapter 2. The politics of minority language policy, 1949-2002 --$tChapter 3. The politics of the status of writing systems: Official, experimental, or unofficial --$tChapter 4. Choices of scripts and theories of writing systems: East vs. West --$tChapter 5. The politics of vernacular writing systems --$tChapter 6. The politics of traditional and reformed writing systems --$tChapter 7. Modernization: The politics and sociolinguistics of Chinese loanwords and minority language orthography --$tChapter 8. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tSubject index --$tIndex of (officially recognized) minority nationalities and minority languages in China --$tIndex of names of influential persons 330 $aMinglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process. It documents how different script reforms meet dramatically different fates according to local preferences, history, cross-border ties, and the vitality of previously-used scripts. It convincingly shows that no single variable is decisive in the success of a script, and that language planners' fixation with technical details is doomed to failure, without careful coordination of extra-code factors. It also documents the little-known Sino-Soviet cooperation in the area of writing reforms. In a style accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Zhou's book is of interest to language planners, sinologists, applied linguists, writing theorists, and ethnologists. 410 0$aContributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 606 $aLinguistic minorities$xGovernment policy$zChina 606 $aMultilingualism$zChina 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLinguistic minorities$xGovernment policy 615 0$aMultilingualism 676 $a306.44/951 700 $aZhou$b Minglang$f1954-$0695054 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463654403321 996 $aMultilingualism in China$91251274 997 $aUNINA