Title Modern Chinese : history and sociolinguistics / Ping Chen

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) 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 Summary The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century. This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the development of Chinese from the late 19th century onwards Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Chinese language -- Modern Chinese, 1919- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Chinese. Chinese language -- Modern Chinese, 1919- Chinese language -- Modern Chinese Geschichte Soziolinguistik Chinesisch Chinees. Spreektaal. Schrijftaal. Chinees schrift. Chinois (langue) -- Écriture. Chinois (langue) -- 1919- ... (chinois moderne) Sociolinguistique. Chinois (langue) -- Aspect social. Chinesisch. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511040334 9780511040337 0511051689 9780511051685 0511150997 9780511150999 9781139164375 1139164376 9786612388934 6612388935 1282388932 9781282388932 0511642725 9780511642722 0511556217 9780511556210

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