Multilingualism in China : the politics of writing reforms for minority languages, 1949-2002 / / by Minglang Zhou

• Autore: Zhou Minglang <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/951
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic minorities - Government policy - China; Multilingualism - China
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-446) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Multilingualism in China
• ISBN: 3-11-092459-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463654403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]