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Author : Yanmei Han
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Book Synopsis The Linguistic Landscape in China by : Yanmei Han
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Author : Jackie Jia Lou
Release : 2016-05-12
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown by : Jackie Jia Lou
Download or read book The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown written by Jackie Jia Lou. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area’s shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public policies, it provides an in-depth study of the production and consumption of linguistic landscape as a cultural text. Following a geosemiotic analysis of shop signs, it traces the multiple historical trajectories of discourse which shaped the bilingual landscape of the neighbourhood. Turning to the spatial contexts, it then compares and contrasts the situated meaning of the linguistic landscape for residents, community organisers and urban planners.
Author : Zheng-sheng Zhang
Release : 2024-03-31
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 061/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chinese Signs by : Zheng-sheng Zhang
Download or read book Chinese Signs written by Zheng-sheng Zhang. This book was released on 2024-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting stylistic and rhetorical characteristics, this book provides authentic snapshots of the linguistic landscape of China.
Author : Minglang Zhou
Release : 2006-04-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China by : Minglang Zhou
Download or read book Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China written by Minglang Zhou. This book was released on 2006-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2004-08-27
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 387/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China by : Minglang Zhou
Download or read book Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China written by Minglang Zhou. This book was released on 2004-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
