8 How Standard Zhuang has Met with Market Forces

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Note on the Use of Original Scripts in this Volume x
5. Introduction: Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts – Asian Perspectives 1
6. Part 1 Histories of Standardization in Multilingual Contexts
7. 1 Language Codification: Coloniality, Society and History 21
8. 2 Linguistic Variation in Late Qing Western Sources: An Analysis of Edkins’ Grammar of Shanghainese 40
9. 3 Teaching Mandarin Pronunciation to Mongolian Learners in Early Republican Period China: The Case of the Mongolian Han Original Sounds of the Five Regions (Meng Han Hebi Wufang Yuanyin, 蒙漢合璧五方元音) 56
10. Part 2 Standardization and Variation in Multilingual China: Implications for Education, Testing, Policy and Practice
11. 4 Reconciling Multilingualism and Promotion of the Standard Language in Education in China 83
12. 5 Language Standards in Language Testing: The Case of Variation in Written Chinese Proficiency Tests for Second Language Learners 104
13. 6 Social Meaning and Variation in Perception: Beijingers’ Attitudes Towards Beijing Mandarin 128
14. 7 Global Chinese and Malaysian Mandarin: Transnational Standards for the Chinese Language 147
15. Part 3: Standardization and Minoritized Languages in Multilingual Contexts
16. 8 How Standard Zhuang has Met with Market Forces 163
17. 9 Is Sibe a Linguistic Continuation of Manchu? 183
18. 10 Language Standardization for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China 203
19. 11 Politeness Strategies, Language Standardization and Language Purism in Amdo Tibetan 223
20. 12 Erasure and Revitalization of an Endangered Language: The Case of Jejueo in South Korea 241
21. 13 Standardizing Indigenous Languages in Thailand Through Orthography Development and Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: The Case of Patani Malay 258
22. Part 4 Negotiating Standards and Variation: Case Studies From Japanese
23. 14 After Language Standardization: Dialect Cosplay in Japan 281
24. 15 Negotiating ‘Standard’ Gendered Speech in Japanese: The Case of Transgender Speakers 298
25. 16 Between Standardization and Localization: Changes in Tôhoku Dialect as Spoken in Hawai‘i 315
26. Index 335