Publications

Publication details [#56688]

Premaratne, Dilhara D. 2012. Reforming Chinese characters in the PRC and Japan: New directions in the twenty-first century. Current Issues in Language Planning 13 (4) : 305–319.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ict-technology | modernization | phonetics | script | written language

Language as a subject

Chinese | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how China and Japan have moved further away from phonetizing their script in an effort to handle issues linked to information and communication technology.