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-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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Minglang Zhou
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783110178968
• ISBN: 978-3-11-017896-8
• Seiten: 458
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 36 mm x 230 mm
• Gewicht: 804 g
• Illustration: 94 b/w tbl., 2 maps
• Serien: Contributions to the Sociology of Language; Contributions to the Sociology of Language (CSL); Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]; ISSN
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen