A polity study of minority language management in China focusing on Zhuang

Grey, A

A polity study of minority language management in China focusing on Zhuang

Grey, A

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Publisher:: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019, 20, (5), pp. 443-502
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Grey, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-6969
dc.date.accessioned	2021-09-02T03:19:07Z
dc.date.available	2021-09-02T03:19:07Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019, 20, (5), pp. 443-502
dc.identifier.issn	1466-4208
dc.identifier.issn	1747-7506
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150295
dc.description.abstract	This polity study is about the language policy situation in the People’s Republic of China (China) with a focus on one official minority language, Zhuang. The paper offers an examination of the language policy and planning (LPP) framework nationally as it relates to official minority languages, and regionally as it relates to the Zhuang minority language. It incorporates technical law and policy data but also data and analysis on the ‘sociolinguistic realities “on the ground”’ [Freeland, J., & Patrick, D. (2004). Language rights and language survival: Sociolinguistic and sociocultural perspectives. In J. Freeland & D. Patrick (Eds.), Language rights and language survival (pp. 1–33). Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, p. 1]. The paper covers the current sociolinguistic state of Zhuang and its speakers; historical developments in Zhuang language spread, planning and policy; and the central role in Zhuang language management of an official polity, the Zhuangzu, founded to represent Zhuang speakers’ interests. The paper is founded on an ethnographically oriented study of interpretations and practices of Zhuang LPP. In analysing the structures and processes of the Zhuang LPP framework, the paper draws out operational limits and policy discontinuities as well as language ideological tensions and other socially situated problems in Zhuang LPP. Many of these will be relevant to LPP studies of other minority languages in China, and potentially elsewhere.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Current Issues in Language Planning
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14664208.2018.1502513
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	2004 Linguistics
dc.title	A polity study of minority language management in China focusing on Zhuang
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	20
utslib.for	2004 Linguistics
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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dc.date.updated	2021-09-02T03:19:03Z
pubs.issue	5
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Abstract:

This polity study is about the language policy situation in the People’s Republic of China (China) with a focus on one official minority language, Zhuang. The paper offers an examination of the language policy and planning (LPP) framework nationally as it relates to official minority languages, and regionally as it relates to the Zhuang minority language. It incorporates technical law and policy data but also data and analysis on the ‘sociolinguistic realities “on the ground”’ [Freeland, J., & Patrick, D. (2004). Language rights and language survival: Sociolinguistic and sociocultural perspectives. In J. Freeland & D. Patrick (Eds.), Language rights and language survival (pp. 1–33). Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, p. 1]. The paper covers the current sociolinguistic state of Zhuang and its speakers; historical developments in Zhuang language spread, planning and policy; and the central role in Zhuang language management of an official polity, the Zhuangzu, founded to represent Zhuang speakers’ interests. The paper is founded on an ethnographically oriented study of interpretations and practices of Zhuang LPP. In analysing the structures and processes of the Zhuang LPP framework, the paper draws out operational limits and policy discontinuities as well as language ideological tensions and other socially situated problems in Zhuang LPP. Many of these will be relevant to LPP studies of other minority languages in China, and potentially elsewhere.

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