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Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002 (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 89) - Hardcover

Zhou, Minglang

 
9783110178968: Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002 (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 89)
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ISBN 10: 3110178966 ISBN 13: 9783110178968
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Verlag
De Gruyter Mouton
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110178966
ISBN 13 
9783110178968
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
480
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