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Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese / Insup Taylor, M. Martin Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Insup, author.
- Taylor, M. Martin (Maurice Martin), author.
- Series:
- Studies in written language and literacy ; v. 14.
- Studies in written language and literacy, 0929-7324 ; volume 14
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Japanese
- Korean
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese language.
- Chinese language--Writing.
- Korean language.
- Korean language--Writing.
- Japanese language.
- Japanese language--Writing.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 487 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 About the authors p. xv
- 2 Preface p. xvii
- 3 Acknowledgements p. xix
- 4 Part I. Chinese p. 19
- 5 Spoken Chinese p. 21
- 6 Chinese characters: Hanzi p. 37
- 7 Meaning representation in characters p. 56
- 8 Sound representation by characters p. 75
- 9 History of education and literacy in China p. 85
- 10 Reforming spoken and written Chinese p. 112
- 11 School, and learning to read in Chinese p. 130
- 12 Summary and conclusions p. 153
- 13 Part II. Korean p. 155
- 14 Korean language p. 157
- 15 Hancha: Chinese characters p. 172
- 16 Han'g?l: Alphabetic syllabary p. 180
- 17 Learning and using Han'g?l p. 199
- 18 Why should Hancha be kept? p. 223
- 19 History of education and literacy in Korea p. 236
- 20 Summary and conclusions p. 253
- 21 Part III. Japanese p. 255
- 22 Japanese language p. 257
- 23 Kanji: Chinese characters p. 271
- 24 Kana: Japanese syllabary p. 284
- 25 R?maji: Roman letters p. 294
- 26 Why keep Kanji? p. 303
- 27 History of mass literacy in Japan p. 322
- 28 Learning and using Kanji and Kana p. 333
- 29 The Japanese educational system p. 352
- 30 Summary and conclusions p. 361
- 31 Part IV. Common issues p. 255
- 32 Eye movements and text writing in East Asia p. 365
- 33 Reading and the brain p. 380
- 34 East Asian students in international tests p. 395
- 35 Logographic characters vs phonetic scripts p. 405
- 36 Afterthoughts p. 421
- 37 Glossary p. 423
- 38 Bibliography p. 439
- 39 Name index p. 463
- 40 Subject index p. 471.
- Notes:
- Revision of Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese / Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor, c1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027218094
- 9027218099
- 9789027218100
- 9027218102
- OCLC:
- 884500262
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