ISBN:
9781501512551
,
9781501512407
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 342 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Contributions to the sociology of language [CSL] volume 113
Series Statement:
Contributions to the sociology of language [CSL]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.895919
Keywords:
China
;
Ethnografie
;
Minderheitensprachen
;
Sprachpolitik
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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Linguistic rights
;
Zhuang language Social aspects
;
Zhuang language
;
Sprachliche Minderheit
;
Minderheitenrecht
;
China
;
China
;
Sprachliche Minderheit
;
Minderheitenrecht
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
DOI:
10.1515/9781501512551
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512551
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501512551
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