Language Planning In China

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614513929
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Planning in China written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading scholar who has been closely involved in language planning in China over many decades, this collection of essays is a critical reflection of the work the Chinese government and academics have undertaken in establishing appropriate policies regarding language standard, language use and language education. The essays contain unique insights into the thinking behind much of the language planning work in China today.

Author : Minglang Zhou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402080387
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China written by Minglang Zhou and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua – a speech of no native speakers – and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement. The contributors of this volume provide the first comprehensive scrutiny of this sweeping linguistic revolution from three unique perspectives. First, outside scholars critically question the parities between constitutional rights and actual practices and between policies and outcomes. Second, inside policy practitioners review their own project involvements and inside politics, pondering over missteps, undergoing soul-searching, and theorizing their personal experiences. Third, scholars of minority origin give inside views of policy implementations and challenges in their home communities. The volume sheds light on the complexity of language policy making and implementing as well as on the politics and ideology of language in contemporary China.

Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847690955
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters written by Robert B. Kaplan and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation -- including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.

Author : Ping Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136854460
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Planning and Language Policy written by Ping Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major issues of language planning and policy in Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam, particularly those relating to the selection of official language, script, and written language.

Author : Shouhui Zhao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387485767
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Chinese Characters written by Shouhui Zhao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most comprehensive synthesis and analysis of major developments in reforming programs in modernizing the Chinese writing system. It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.

Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317981804
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Planning in the Asia Pacific written by Robert B. Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous to the situations described while the other has undertaken extensive field work and consulting there. The three monographs contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the research available about each of them, while providing new research-based information. The purpose of the volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book was published as special issues of Current Issues in Language Planning.

Author : Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270244
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities written by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which diasporic children and young people acquire the ‘Chinese’ language. The chapters present a variety of research-based studies on Chinese heritage language education and bilingual education drawing on detailed investigations of formal and informal educational input including language socialization in families, community heritage language schools and government sponsored educational institutions. Exploring the many pathways of learning ‘Chinese’ and being ‘Chinese’, this volume also examines the complex nature of language acquisition and development, involving language attitudes and ideologies as well as linguistic practices and identity formation. Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities is intended for researchers, teacher-educators, students and practitioners in the fields of Chinese language education and bilingual education and more broadly those concerned with language policy studies and sociolinguistics.

Author : Ernest Andrews
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319709267
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era written by Ernest Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case studies presented here examine language planning in China, Russia, Tatarstan, Central Asia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and focus in particular on developments and disputes that have occurred since the ‘fall of communism’ and the emergence of a new order in the late 1980s. Its authors highlight the dominant issues with which language planning is invariably intertwined. These include power politics, tensions between ‘official language’ and ‘minority languages’, and the effects of a country’s particular political, social, cultural and psychological environment. Offering a detailed account of the socio-political and ideological developments that underlie language planning in these regions, this book will provide a valuable resource for students and scholars of linguistics, cultural studies, political science, sociology and history.

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511432
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2014 written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501511599
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Situation in China written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.