Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages, 1949-2002 - Couverture rigide

Zhou, Minglang

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110178966 ISBN 13 : 9783110178968

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110178966
• ISBN 13: 9783110178968
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
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