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Publication details [#29473]

Hannas, William C. 1995. Korea´s attempts to eliminate Chinese characters and the implications for Romanizing Chinese. Language Problems and Language Planning 19 (3) : 250–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

alphabetic code | language change | language policy | phonetic act | written language

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

The Korean attempts to replace Chinese characters with phonetic script suggest that such moves need devices that increase the predictability or redundancy of alpabetic texts on all levels and that they must avoid artificial constructs that discredit reform.