Multilingualism in China
The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002
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-Sovie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-11-017896-8
- EAN: 9783110178968
- Produktnummer: 14515889
- Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 484 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.0 cm 868 g
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 868
Über den Autor
Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA.
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