Publications

Publication details [#43025]

Zhou, Minglang. 2005. Legislating Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China. Current Issues in Language Planning 6 (2) : 102–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language policy | literacy | minority language | vernacular

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses how Chinese national laws generally adopt a permissive stance towards minority language literacy, whilst local laws take stances ranging from promotion over permission to bare tolerance.