Multilingualism in China - The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages 1949-2002 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Minglang Zhou
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-017896-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	3-11-017896-6
Barcode:	9783110178968

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