Minglang Zhou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Minglang Zhou is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0957-6851 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9838
Title
Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese
Edited by Minglang Zhou
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006) 208 pp.
2015 Nation-State Building in a Rising China: PRC Discourses on the Chinese Language since the Turn of the 21st Century Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China, Tsung, Linda and Wei Wang (eds.), pp. 59–80 | Article
This chapter studies how nation-state is built through discourse evolution in
contemporary China. I consider discourse as an ensemble of concepts of an
ideology bespoken by a collection of defining terms, words and expressions,
in relevant texts. Adopting both constructive and deconstructive… read more
2006 Theorizing language contact, spread, and variation in status planning: A case study of Modern Standard Chinese Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese, Zhou, Minglang (ed.), pp. 159–174 | Article
A theoretical model, managed community second language acquisition (SLA), is proposed to provide a comprehensive view of nine studies of language contact, spread, variation, and attitudes of Chinese, which are shaped by nearly a century of language planning. The model has been reformulated on the… read more
2002 Between us and them in Chinese: Use of lai (come) and qu (go) in the construction of social identities Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures, Duszak, Anna † (ed.), pp. 51–67 | Article
2001 The spread of Putonghua and language attitude changes in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:2, pp. 231–253 | Article
This study measures languages attitudes of 82 college students in Shanghai and Guangzhou, where language planning has promoted Putonghua (PTH) over local varieties since 1956. Since the 1980s, industrialization, commercialization, and greater demographic mobility have changed what used to be… read more
2001 Language policy and reforms of writing systems for minority languages in China Written Language & Literacy 4:1, pp. 31–65 | Article
This paper examines how China’s language policy, dictated by its ethnic minorities policy, has influenced reforms of writing systems for minority languages since 1949. Measured by the landmark publication of the Plan for the Phonetic Spelling of Chinese in 1957, reforms of minority writing systems… read more
2000 Metalinguistic awareness in linguistic relativity: Cultural and subcultural practices across Chinese dialect communities Explorations in Linguistic Relativity, Pütz, Martin and Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.), pp. 345–364 | Article
1999 The Official National Language and Language Attitudes of Three Ethnic Minority Groups in China Language Problems and Language Planning 23:2, pp. 157–174 | Article
La oficiala lingvo kaj lingvaj sintenoj ĉe tri minoritataj grupoj en Cinio Rezulte de lingvoplanado, duono de la cent milionoj da etnominoritatanoj (EMN) en Ĉinio parolas iun version de Putonghua (PTH) kiel sian unuan aŭ duan lingvon. La nuna studo, utiligante sintenan/motivan enketaron kaj "pare… read more