Perceptions of invisible Zhuang minority language in Linguistic Landscapes of the People’s Republic of China and implications for language policy

Grey, A

Perceptions of invisible Zhuang minority language in Linguistic Landscapes of the People’s Republic of China and implications for language policy

Grey, A

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Publisher:: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Linguistic Landscape. An international journal, 2021
Issue Date:: 2021-05-25

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dc.contributor.author	Grey, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-6969
dc.date.accessioned	2021-09-02T03:16:52Z
dc.date.available	2021-09-02T03:16:52Z
dc.date.issued	2021-05-25
dc.identifier.citation	Linguistic Landscape. An international journal, 2021
dc.identifier.issn	2214-9953
dc.identifier.issn	2214-9961
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150292
dc.description.abstract	<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The article presents data from a 2013–2019 ethnography of Zhuang language policy to support an analysis of implications for language policy research and scholarship of findings about the (in)visibility of publicly displayed Zhuang. The analysis challenges core assumptions of language policy-making, advocacy and scholarship and explicates the general implications of this challenge beyond China, particularly for minority languages. The most important assumption that this article interrogates is that a written language on display will be recognised <jats:italic>as that language</jats:italic> by its speakers. Further, it argues that literacy, script, and other language policies impact on display policies and must work together; they do not in the Zhuang case. In making a case for language policy informed by ethnographic research, this article reviews the foundations of socially-situated analyses of Linguistic Landscapes. To galvanise further such research and articulate it to policy-makers, the article employs the term ‘lived landscape approach’.</jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
dc.relation.ispartof	Linguistic Landscape. An international journal
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1075/ll.20012.gre
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	2004 Linguistics, 2003 Language Studies
dc.title	Perceptions of invisible Zhuang minority language in Linguistic Landscapes of the People’s Republic of China and implications for language policy
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	2004 Linguistics
utslib.for	2003 Language Studies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2021-09-02T03:16:51Z
pubs.publication-status	Published online

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Abstract The article presents data from a 2013–2019 ethnography of Zhuang language policy to support an analysis of implications for language policy research and scholarship of findings about the (in)visibility of publicly displayed Zhuang. The analysis challenges core assumptions of language policy-making, advocacy and scholarship and explicates the general implications of this challenge beyond China, particularly for minority languages. The most important assumption that this article interrogates is that a written language on display will be recognised as that language by its speakers. Further, it argues that literacy, script, and other language policies impact on display policies and must work together; they do not in the Zhuang case. In making a case for language policy informed by ethnographic research, this article reviews the foundations of socially-situated analyses of Linguistic Landscapes. To galvanise further such research and articulate it to policy-makers, the article employs the term ‘lived landscape approach’.

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