OLAC Record oai:gial.edu:12276

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Title:		Modern Chinese : history and sociolinguistics
Abstract:		The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century in a way unparalleled at any time previously. This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century up to the 1990s, concentrating on three major aspects: Modern Spoken Chinese, Modern Written Chinese and the Modern Chinese writing system. It describes and analyses in detail, from historical and sociolinguistic perspectives, the establishment and promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese and Modern Written Chinese and the reform of the Chinese script. Through an integrated discussion of these three areas of the language it highlights the close interrelationships between them and reveals the interaction of linguistic, historical and social factors in the development of Modern Chinese
Creator:		Chen, Ping, 1954-
Date (W3CDTF):		1999
Description:		Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-221) and index
Extent:		xiv, 229 p. ; 24 cm
Identifier:		ISBN: 0521641977 (hbk.)
		ISBN: 0521645727 (pbk.)
Language:		English
		Chinese
Language (ISO639):		eng
		zho
Publisher:		Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press
Subject:		PL1083.C525 1999
		495.1
		Chinese language
Subject (ISO639):		zho
Subject (LCSH):		Chinese language--Modern Chinese, 1919-
Table Of Contents:		Modern Spoken Chinese -- Establishment and promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese -- Development of Standard Spoken Chinese before the late nineteenth century -- Establishment and promotion of Modern Standard Chinese from the late nineteenth century until 1949 -- Promotion of putonghua after 1949 -- Promotion of Modern Standard Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore -- Norms and variations of Modern Standard Chinese -- Phonology of Modern Standard Chinese -- Difference between Modern Standard Chinese and the Beijing dialect -- Adulterated putonghua -- Norms of Modern Standard Chinese outside mainland China -- The standard and dialects -- Dialects in contact -- Socio-functional differentiation of Modern Standard Chinese and dialects -- Language policy towards dialects -- Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore -- Modern Written Chinese -- Development and promotion of Modern Written Chinese -- Old Written Chinese -- Emergence of early Modern Written Chinese -- Replacement of wenyan by baihua as Standard Written Chinese -- Sources of and avenues of influence upon Modern Written Chinese -- Uses of wenyan and baihua since the 1940s -- Establishment of Modern Written Chinese and status planning -- Norms and variations of Modern Written Chinese -- Newly developed grammatical norms in Modern Written Chinese -- Regional variations in the grammatical norms of Modern Written Chinese -- Newly developed lexical norms in Modern Written Chinese -- Regional variations in the lexical norms of Modern Written Chinese -- Efforts of corpus planning in the development of Modern Written Chinese -- Dialect writing -- Single standard written language for dialects -- Causes of the under-development of dialect writing -- Current endeavours in Taiwan toward dialect writing -- Implications of standardization of dialect writing -- The modern Chinese writing system -- Basic features of the Chinese writing system -- Typological characterization -- Brief history of the Chinese script -- Correlation between script and language -- Merits of the Chinese script -- Motivation for reform -- Approaches to script reform -- Simplification of the traditional writing system -- Approaches to simplification -- Simplification before the twentieth century -- Simplification in the twentieth century -- Gains and problems -- Objections to the Second Scheme -- Simplification of script outside mainland China -- Phonetization of Chinese -- Efforts by Western missionaries -- Schemes proposed by native Chinese -- Groupings of schemes -- Five representative schemes -- Phonetization in Taiwan and elsewhere -- Use and reform of the Chinese writing system: present and future -- Recent developments -- Change in policy on script reform -- Prospects of script reform
Temporal Coverage:		Modern Chinese, 1919-
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Chen, Ping, 1954-. 1999. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press.
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