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Publication details [#60543]

Premaratne, Dilhara D. 2015. Globalisation, language planning and language rights: the recent script policy measures adopted by Japan and the People's Republic of China. Current Issues in Language Planning 16 (4) : 425–440.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | language change | language planning | linguistic human rights | written language

Language as a subject

Chinese | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

The reverse 2009 script reform policy measures of China and Japan in response to globalisation forces, the former reducing and streamlining its script to make it efficient in digitalised settings, the latter increasing its (Chinese) script to counteract the impact of digital media, both remain indifferent towards language rights and social justice matters induced by their respective policies.