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-Sovi…
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- ISBN: 978-3-11-092459-6
- EAN: 9783110924596
- Produktnummer: 14155350
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA.
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