Industrialization and the Restructuring of Speech Communities in China and Europe
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Industrialization and the Restructuring of Speech Communities in China and Europe


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This book documents the changing language situation in urban centres in China, gauging the impact of industrialization and the consequent population movement on forms of language communication. Research reports detailing aspects of the new and emerging language situation demonstrate the interplay of the Chinese standard language, Putonghua, and various Chinese dialects. Urban areas covered are Baotou (Inner Mongolia), Jintan (Jiangsu), Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hainan island. The Chinese transition to an industrial society is contrasted with post-industrialized societies in Europe. The latter are represented by studies of the Dutch and German language situation. The empirical studies are preceded by an overview of China’s language planning efforts, an analysis of the position of the Chinese language in the World Language System, a comparison of Chinese and European urban environments, an introduction of the Chinese Dialect Preservation Project, and an experimental study of the mutual intelligibility between Chinese dialects. The contributions are all original and they address current issues in the Chinese language situation, exemplifying innovative applications and development of sociolinguistic theories. The book therefore is a must-read for linguists, sociolinguistics, Chinese language students and China experts.

About the Author :
Dr Marinus van den Berg is Co-ordinator of the international project "Industrialisation, Language Contact, and Identity Formation in China and Europe." This project is supported by the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands, where he is an affiliated fellow (www.iias.nl/ilci). He is the author of Language Planning and Language Use in Taiwan: A Study of Language Choice Behaviour in Public Settings (Taipei: Crane, 1986) and The Chinese Particle LE: A Study in Common Ground Co-ordination (London: Routledge, 2006).Dr Daming Xu is Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at Nanjing University (www.sociolinguistics.cn) and Director of the China Center for Linguistic and Strategic Studies (www.chinalanguage.net). He is the author of A Survey of Language Use and Language Attitudes in the Singapore Chinese Community (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2004) and Current Trends in Sociolinguistics (Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing, 1997/2004).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443823807
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1443823805
  • Publisher Date: 22 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 212 mm
  • No of Pages: 335
  • Width: 148 mm


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