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Language Rights in a Changing China - A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (Paperback)
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Language Rights in a Changing China - A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study (Paperback)
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
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China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades,
but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical
detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic
study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group.
The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local
government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are
experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity.
The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant
marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe
low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity
validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a
Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this
is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in
linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a
study of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's
award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A.
Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study "decenter[s] all
types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking
work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond
China.
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