Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 868 g
Reihe: ISSN
The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002
Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 868 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-017896-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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.
Zielgruppe
Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
