Guowen Shang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Guowen Shang is involved.
Article
2020 Wrestling between English and Pinyin: Language politics and ideologies of coding street names in China Journal of Language and Politics 19:4, pp. 624–645 | Article
This paper examines the code choice and contestations on street name signs in China to find out the dynamics of language politics and the language ideological debates. In China, Hanyu Pinyin and English compete for visibility on street signs, though only Pinyin is the legally-endorsed alphabetic… read more