By Shouhui Zhao, Richard B. Jr. Baldauf
The entire international has been staring at the colossal alterations which are presently taking place in China, yet few individuals are conscious that while, to make sure the writing approach serves those alterations good, chinese language characters have additionally passed through major reform. whereas targeting present difficulties, advancements and attainable strategies, this booklet additionally info the foremost implementation of language making plans courses for the modernization of the chinese language writing procedure that experience happened over the past century.
The quantity offers a wide and in-depth research of the clash among one of many world’s oldest surviving script platforms and the newest advancements in verbal exchange expertise. accomplished in assurance, interdisciplinary in constitution, with copious references to aid readers in finding quite a lot of assets, this publication bargains an analytic dialogue of personality making plans that may turn out of significant worth to language policymakers and people who have an interest in China/East Asian reviews and sinology.
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According to Wang Xuewen (1997: 13), an eminent Taiwan script reform researcher: It was said that Mr. Dai Jitao was extremely angry at the decree publication. To promote simplified characters by using governmental force was equal to a self-imposed destruction of the national foundation – the result it caused would be even more harmful than national doom. Dai cited Dr. Sun Yatsen’s quotation, saying that the writing in education was the most important element for national life, and he argued that this was a hasty decision.
Writing simplification as an integral part of language reform, originating in the May Fourth Movement of 1919; Leading linguist’s Qian Xuantong’s work was appreciated by the elites; Widespread and extensive actual use of simplified characters. Content Organizations Results Reasons Background Enthusiasm by zealous population; Carefully organized by the government; Favorable environment created by de facto adoption of FFS. 1935) Table 1-1. Three Chinese character simplification schemes Alleged failure to win public support; Incomplete legal procedures; Oversimplification caused radical change; Economic losses (to re-typeset some major reference books and computer chips).
A Fu image from the notebook of an early 20th century shaman (Hook and Twitchett 1991: 122) Sanctity being every bit as much socially constructed as other societal beliefs and convictions. …these very same convictions also tend to complicate or restrict language modernization efforts, constraining them to be more ‘authentic’, purist, ausbau, and indigenous in orientation rather than following along the lines of ‘internationalization’ which corpus planning for modernization normally pursues. To overcome the difficulty brought about by linguistic holiness and purism, there are cases where conscious efforts have been made to accommodate people’s beliefs, or to avoid the conflict between the planning programs and the holy nature people placed on their languages.