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An MLAL/CALS research seminar will take place on Thursday 25th October at 15.00 in C1079:</div>
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<strong>Language policy and planning in the Chinese context.</strong></div>
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<strong>Shujian Guo</strong></div>
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This presentation will give an introduction to language planning and
policy in China, focusing on history, current issues and the principles
and philosophy which inform policy and planning in the Chinese context.
The seminar will include discussion of phonological aspects, the writing
system, language modernization and education policies. The presentation
will also make reference to issues such as the role of government in
LPP and the main factors which differentiate LPP in China from western
cultural contexts.</div>
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<em><strong>Speaker:</strong></em></div>
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Shujian Guo (<a href="mailto:shujian.guo@ul.ie">shujian.guo@ul.ie</a>)
is a PhD candidate at Shanghai International Studies University, and
currently a visiting researcher at the Centre for Applied Language
Studies at UL. His main research interest is language policy and new
media and he is currently studying applications of corpus methodologies
to language policy and planning research. He is also working on ways in
which data from social networks and their linguistic features can shed
light on political positions. Shujian Guo has also previously worked on
the influence of Japanese dictionaries on Chinese legal terminologies in
the1900s</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>