Publications

Publication details [#32445]

Maxwell, Alexander. 2003. Literary dialects in China and Slovakia: imagining unitary nationality with multiple orthographies. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 164 : 129–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | literary language | nationalism | orthography | written language

Language as a subject

Chinese | Slovak

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how the proposed multidialectical Chinese and Slovak orthographies failed, suggesting a relationship between nation-building and the codification of particularist orthographies.