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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would like to ask a question to everybody:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">When citing literature written in non-Latin script, why do some editors require it to be
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">cited ONLY in Latin script?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For example, this is how I would cite a Chinese book, when writing an article in English:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xùliàn</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">旭</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">练</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lǐ</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">李</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<i>Láiyǔ
yánjiū</i></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">倈语</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">硏究</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. Zhōngguó
xīn fāxiàn yǔyán yánjiū cóngshū</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">中</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">国</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">新</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">发现语</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">言</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">研</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">究</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">丛书</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
Zhōngyāng mínzú dàxué chūbǎnshè</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">中央民族大</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PMingLiU",serif">学</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">出版社</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
Běijīng</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Batang",serif">北京</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As you can see, in both the original script (Chinese) and Latin script. But some editors require it to be:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xùliàn</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lǐ. <i>
Láiyǔ yánjiū</i>. Zhōngguó xīn fāxiàn yǔyán yánjiū cóngshū. Zhōngyāng mínzú dàxué chūbǎnshè, Běijīng</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But why would we not write the original script and ONLY write in
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Latin script?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The point of citing literature is to enable the reader to go find and consult it themself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But when the author’s name is written as
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xùliàn</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lǐ</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, I have no idea how that would be written in Chinese, thus making it more difficult to find the
literature when needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So what is the logical purpose of requiring the article to be cited ONLY in Latin script?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The only logical reason I can think of is that it saves some space – ca. one line per citation. But is that a good enough reason to make things harder for those actually
wanting to find and read the cited work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would like to hear your opinion on this matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(I’m asking this question on Lingtyp mailing list, because our subfield makes it necessary for some of us to make extensive use of non-Latin-script literature.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From Daejeon,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ian</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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