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Language diversity in the Sinophone world : historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices / edited by Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in sociolinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language policy--China.
- Language policy.
- Multilingualism--China.
- Multilingualism.
- Chinese language--Variation.
- Chinese language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Biography/History:
- Henning Klt̲er is Full Professor of Modern Chinese Languages and Literatures in the Department of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Mr̄ten Sd̲erblom Saarela is Assistant Research Fellowat the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
- Contents:
- Introduction : language diversity in the Sinophone world / Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela
- What was standard Chinese in the nineteenth Century? : divergent views in the times of transition / Richard VanNess Simmons
- Manchu, Mandarin, and the politicization of spoken language in Qing China / Mårten Söderblom Saarela
- Romanizing southern Mǐn : missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars / Don Snow
- Interactions across Englishes in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Singapore / Christiane Meirkord
- One legacy, two legislations : language policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait / Henning Klöter
- Language policy and practice in Taiwan in the early twenty-first century / Su-Chio Chen
- A tale of two special administrative regions : the state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao / David C.S. Li and Choi-Lan Tong
- One people, one nation, one Singapore : language policy and shifting identities among Chinese Singaporeans / Yeng Seng Goa and Yeow Wah Fong
- Speakers of "mother tongues" in multilingual China : complex linguistic repertoires and identity construction / Sihua Liang
- Multilingualism and language policy in Singapore / Peter Siemund and Lijun Li
- The discourses of lào yīngwén : resistance to and subversion of the normative status of English in Taiwan / Hsi-Yao Su
- Conventionalized code-switching in Taiwan : English insertions in Taiwan Mandarin / Julia Wasserfall
- Ubiquitous but unplanned : the utterance-final particle ê in Taiwan Mandarin / Chin-Hui Lin
- Diverse language, diverse grammars : on quirky phenomena in Mandarin / Jeroen Widenhof.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Language diversity in the Sinophone world
- ISBN:
- 9781003049890
- 1003049893
- 9781000201482
- 1000201481
- 1000201384
- 9781000201437
- 1000201430
- 9781000201383
- Publisher Number:
- 99991397274
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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