Language Policy In The People S Republic Of China

Author : Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781402080388

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Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China by Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun Pdf

Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua – a speech of no native speakers – and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement. The contributors of this volume provide the first comprehensive scrutiny of this sweeping linguistic revolution from three unique perspectives. First, outside scholars critically question the parities between constitutional rights and actual practices and between policies and outcomes. Second, inside policy practitioners review their own project involvements and inside politics, pondering over missteps, undergoing soul-searching, and theorizing their personal experiences. Third, scholars of minority origin give inside views of policy implementations and challenges in their home communities. The volume sheds light on the complexity of language policy making and implementing as well as on the politics and ideology of language in contemporary China.

Author : Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402080395

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Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China by Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun Pdf

Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official speech, Putonghua - a speech of no native speakers - and reading their way through a labyrinth of the traditional, simplified, and Pinyin (Roman) scripts. Moreover, the various minority groups have been struggling between their native languages and Chinese, maintaining the former for their heritages and identities and learning the latter for quality education and socioeconomic advancement. The contributors of this volume provide the first comprehensive scrutiny of this sweeping linguistic revolution from three unique perspectives. First, outside scholars critically question the parities between constitutional rights and actual practices and between policies and outcomes. Second, inside policy practitioners review their own project involvements and inside politics, pondering over missteps, undergoing soul-searching, and theorizing their personal experiences. Third, scholars of minority origin give inside views of policy implementations and challenges in their home communities. The volume sheds light on the complexity of language policy making and implementing as well as on the politics and ideology of language in contemporary China.

Author : Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401740313

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Language Policy in the People's Republic of China by Minglang Zhou,Hongkai Sun Pdf

Author : Andy Kirkpatrick,Anthony J. Liddicoat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317354499

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The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia by Andy Kirkpatrick,Anthony J. Liddicoat Pdf

This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect. The most recent iteration of language education policies of each of the countries is described and the impact and potential consequence of any change is critically considered. Each country chapter provides a historical overview of the languages in use and language education policies, examines the ideologies underpinning the language choices, and includes an account of the debates and controversies surrounding language and language education policies, before concluding with some predictions for the future.

Author : Lubei Zhang,Linda Tsung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030034542

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Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China by Lubei Zhang,Linda Tsung Pdf

This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist’s perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The book provides an overview on the Yi people since 1949, their history, society, culture, customs and languages. Adopting the theory of language ecology, data was collected among different Yi groups and case studies were focused on Yi bilingual schools. By looking into the application of the Chinese government’s multilingual language and education policy over the last 30 years with its underlying language ideology and practices the book reveals the de facto language policy by analyzing the language management at school level, the linguistic landscape around the Yi community, as well as the language attitude and cultural identities held by present Yi students, teachers and parents. The book is relevant for anyone looking to more deeply understand bilingual education and language maintenance in today’s global context.

Author : Agnes S.L. Lam
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789622097506

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Language Education in China : Policy and Experience from 1949 by Agnes S.L. Lam Pdf

Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive study of the multilingual circumstances in China. It tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages and minority ethnic languages in China since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. On the basis of survey and interview data, the experiences of different age cohorts of learners are presented as "windows" to the realities of language education policy implementation over the last half century. The effects of political changes, language backgrounds and various motivations for learning, at both the national and individual levels, are vividly presented in this composite story of China and learners in China.

Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000293300

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Language & Linguistics in the People's Republic of China by Winfred Philipp Lehmann Pdf

Author : Agnes S.L. Lam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9622097502

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Language Education in China : Policy and Experience from 1949 by Agnes S.L. Lam Pdf

Language Education in China: Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive study of the multilingual circumstances in China. It tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages and minority ethnic languages in China since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. On the basis of survey and interview data, the experiences of different age cohorts of learners are presented as "windows" to the realities of language education policy implementation over the last half century. The effects of political changes, language backgrounds and various motivations for learning, at both the national and individual levels, are vividly presented in this composite story of China and learners in China.

Author : Qingsheng Zhou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511516

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Ethnic Minority Languages in China by Qingsheng Zhou Pdf

This book describes and analyzes the situation of minority languages in China.

Author : Li Yuming,Li Wei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511417

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The Language Situation in China by Li Yuming,Li Wei Pdf

China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Author : Li Yuming,Li Wei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512530

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2006–2007 by Li Yuming,Li Wei Pdf

China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese language and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Author : Li Yuming,Li Wei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511592

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The Language Situation in China by Li Yuming,Li Wei Pdf

China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Author : Linda Tsung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441155740

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Language Power and Hierarchy by Linda Tsung Pdf

Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Amongst other issues, it also looks at the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as the mediation between religion and culture in multi-ethnic schools, covering these issues from a range of perspectives - Korean, Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Yi. The PRC promotes itself as a harmonious, stable multicultural mosaic, with over 50 distinct ethnic groups striving for common prosperity. Beneath this rhetoric, there is also inter-ethnic discord, with scenes of ethnic violence in Lhasa and Urumqi over the last few years. China has a complex system of multilingual education - with dual-pathway curricula, bilingual and trilingual instruction, specialised ethnic schools. This education system is a lynchpin in the Communist party state's efforts to keep a lid on simmering tensions and transform a rhetoric of harmony into a critical pluralistic harmonious multiculturalism. This book examines this supposed lynchpin.

Author : Li Yuming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614513926

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Language Planning in China by Li Yuming Pdf

Written by a leading scholar who has been closely involved in language planning in China over many decades, this collection of essays is a critical reflection of the work the Chinese government and academics have undertaken in establishing appropriate policies regarding language standard, language use and language education. The essays contain unique insights into the thinking behind much of the language planning work in China today.

Author : Alexandra Grey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501512551

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Language Rights in a Changing China by Alexandra Grey Pdf

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.