Language Ideology and Order in Rising China

Minglang Zhou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2019 | 2019 ed.
Springer Verlag, Singapore
9789811334825 (ISBN)

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This text considers contemporary China’s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China’s language order unfolds on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic growth and military expansion. Within the conceptual framework of language ideology and language order and using PRC policy documents, education annals, and fieldwork, this book explores how China’s language ideology is related to its growing global power as well as its domestic and global outreaches. It also addresses how this ideology has been materialized as a language order in terms of institutional development and support, and what impact these choices are having on China and the world. Focusing on the relationship between language ideology and language order, the book highlights a closer and coherent linguistic association between China’s domestic drive and global outreach sincethe turn of the century.

Minglang Zhou is Associate Professor and Director of the Chinese Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA and teaches courses on Chinese linguistics, China studies, and Chinese as a second language. He earned his doctoral degree from Michigan State University. His research interests include the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, ethnic affairs in China, and teaching Chinese as a second/global language.

Introduction: Rising China.- Defining Language Ideology and Language Order.- Synchronizing the Chinese Language.- Harmonizing Linguistic Diversity.- Evaluating Languages.- Reordering Languages along China’s Borders.- Promoting Chinese across Borders.- Outreaching to Overseas Chinese Communities.- Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 306 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	China as Rising Global Power Player • China’s Promotion of Putonghua • Globalization of Chinese • Language Ideology in China • Nation-state Building and Language • Power and Language Order
ISBN-13	9789811334825 / 9789811334825
Zustand	Neuware