Title Multilingualism in China : the politics of writing reforms for minority languages, 1949-2002 / by Minglang Zhou

Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (482 pages) : maps Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 89 Contributions to the sociology of language ; 89. Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and names of minorities in China -- Map 1 Distribution of minority nationalities and languages in China -- Map 2 China: Autonomous regions and prefectures -- Chapter 1 Minorities and minority languages in China -- 1.1. Historical developments of the Han and non-Han peoples -- 1.2. Official classification of the non-Han peoples -- 1.3. Distribution of minority communities -- 1.4. The classification and distribution of minority languages -- 1.5. Current status of minority languages 1.6. The organization of this bookChapter 2 The politics of minority language policy, 1949�2002 -- 2.1. Development of the CCP minorities policy before 1949 -- 2.2. Theoretical foundation of the CCP minorities policy and later changes -- 2.3. The first pluralistic stage: 1949�1957 -- 2.4. The Chinese monopolistic stage: 1958�1977 -- 2.5. The second pluralistic stage: 1978�2002 -- Chapter 3 The politics of the status of writing systems: Official, experimental, or unofficial -- 3.1. Status of writing systems: The first pluralistic stage (1949�1957) 3.2. Status of writing systems: The Chinese monopolistic stage (1958�1977)3.3. Status of writing systems: The second pluralistic stage (1978�2002) -- 3.4. Issues in China�s minority language policy -- Chapter 4 Choices of scripts and theories of writing systems: East vs. West -- 4.1. Western linguistics and the initial writing reforms for minority languages in the PRC -- 4.2. Modeling after the Soviet Union -- 4.3. Roman, IPA, and Cyrillic scripts: Conflicts and compromises -- Chapter 5 The politics of vernacular writing systems 5.1. The Soviet model and proliferation of vernacular writing systems5.2. Vernacular writing systems: Consolidation and withdrawal -- 5.3. Vernacular writing systems: Consolidation and proliferation -- 5.4. Relationship between standard and vernacular writing systems -- Chapter 6 The politics of traditional and reformed writing systems -- 6.1. Between changing policies and written traditions: The Siniform script vs. the Roman alphabet -- 6.2. Between domestic and international politics: Reform of the Mongolian writing system 6.3. Between socialism and Islam: Reforms of the Uygur and Kazak writing systems6.4. Between the state and Christian traditions: Reforms of missionary writing systems -- 6.5. Between the state and Buddhist traditions: Reforms of writing systems in Dai communities -- 6.6. Factors in the successes and failures of writing reforms -- Chapter 7 Modernization: The politics and sociolinguistics of Chinese loanwords and minority language orthography -- 7.1. The early years of lexical modernization (1949�1955) -- 7.2. Central planning of lexical modernization before Pinyin Summary Annotation "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. 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." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-446) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Linguistic minorities -- Government policy -- China Multilingualism -- China POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Linguistic minorities -- Government policy Multilingualism Mehrsprachigkeit Sprachliche Minderheit Sprachreform Sprachpolitik Minderheidstalen. Spellingshervormingen. China China Form Electronic book ISBN 9783110924596 3110924595 3110178966 9783110178968

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