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Publication details [#51509]

Casas-Tost, Helena and Sara Rovira-Esteva. 2009. Orientalism and occidentalism: two forces behind the image of the Chinese language and construction of the modern standard. Journal of multicultural discourses 4 (2) : 107–121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | foreign language acquisition | language and culture | language attitude | misunderstanding

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper criticizes the application of the standardised European language acquisition, teaching and evaluation model to non-European languages, such as Chinese, tackling simultaneously longstanding, academically entrenched misconceptions caused by the application of a Western linguistic model to Chinese language descriptions and reforms.