Don Snow

List of John Benjamins publications in which Don Snow is involved.

Articles

Snow, Don 2010 Diglossia in East Asia Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20:1, pp. 124–151 | Article

This article examines the most extensive case of diglossia in history, that of diglossia in East Asia. In pre-modern times, Classical Chinese functioned as the high (H) language variety in not only China, but also Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and this entire region can arguably be viewed as a single… read more

Snow, Don 2008 Cantonese as written standard? Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:2, pp. 190–208 | Article

“Standard language” status is a relative construct defined by a variety of attributes rather than by any single criteria. This paper uses the taxonomy of standard language attributes presented in Downes 1998 as a framework for examining the degree to which written Cantonese, particularly in Hong… read more