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How do language rights affect minority languages in China?: an ethnographic investigation of the Zhuang minority language under conditions of rapid social change ...
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This thesis examines the political economy of Zhuang, the language of China’s largest official minority group: how do China’s minority language freedom – a form of constitutional language right – and the policies associated with it affect Zhuang use under conditions of social, economic and political change? The thesis asks what language ideologies are produced and reproduced in official rights discourses and policies and how social actors receive, resist or reproduce these. The research takes an ethnographic approach and draws on interviews with over sixty participants, texts collected from public linguistic landscapes, fieldwork observations and a corpus of Chinese laws, policies and official policy commentaries. The thesis combines three complementary theoretical lenses for analysis, namely legal, linguistic landscape and perspectives lenses. The analysis commences with a critical examination of the procedures of Zhuang language governance, finding that the language policy framework neither empowers Zhuang ...
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URL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/How_do_language_rights_affect_minority_languages_in_China_an_ethnographic_investigation_of_the_Zhuang_minority_language_under_conditions_of_rapid_social_change/19428440 https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19428440
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How do language rights affect minority languages in China?: an ethnographic investigation of the Zhuang minority language under conditions of rapid social change
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New directions created by Putonghua and English’s 'double domination' of Zhuang language in China
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Trends in ethnic identity and language among China’s minority youths
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Guangxi bombings : does speculation of ethnic minority activism hold up?
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Guangxi bombings : corruption and power-abuse take their toll
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Literacy and Development within China’s Minorities
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In: The China Beat Blog Archive 2008-2012 (2012)
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Ideologies of English in Asia. - International journal of the sociology of language : Ideologies of English in Asia. -
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