Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts : Asian Perspectives
Overview
This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization, offering a corrective to earlier work on standardization, which has tended to assume a monolingual nation state and monolingual individuals. Taken together, the chapters in this book thus add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism.
The introduction, Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 are free to download as open access publications under a CC BY NC licence. You can access them here:
Introduction: https: //zenodo.org/record/5749388#.YaiwuNDP3cs
Chapter 6: https: //zenodo.org/record/5749522#.Yaiw-9DP3cs
Chapter 8: https: //zenodo.org/record/5749586#.Yai0RNDP3cs
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781800411555
- ISBN-10: 1800411553
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
- Publish Date: November 2021
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.51 pounds
- Page Count: 351
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