32.2565, Books: Language Rights in a Changing China: Grey

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Subject: 32.2565, Books: Language Rights in a Changing China: Grey

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:26:35
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Language Rights in a Changing China: Grey

 


Title: Language Rights in a Changing China 
Subtitle: A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study 
Series Title: Contributions to the Sociology of Language  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501512551/html 


Author: Alexandra Grey

Electronic: ISBN:  9781501512551 Pages: 342 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781501517747 Pages: 342 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do
they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book
examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of
China’s largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy from the
Constitution to local government practices, investigating how Zhuang language
rights are experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity.
The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant marketised and
mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe low value to Zhuang.
However, people still value a Zhuang identity validated by government policy
and practice.

Rooted in a Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this
is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in
linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a study of
China’s language policy.

The book refines Grey’s award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received
the Joshua A. Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study “decenter[s]
all types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking work on
minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond China.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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