Language Diversity in the Sinophone World

Henning Klöter is Full Professor of Modern Chinese Languages and Literatures in the Department of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.Mårten Söderblom Saarela is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

• Introduction: Language diversity in the sinophone worldPART I Historical trajectories 1 What was standard Chinese in the nineteenth Century? Divergent views in the times of transition2 Manchu, Mandarin, and the politicization of spoken language in Qing China3 Romanizing Southern Mǐn: Missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars4 Interactions across Englishes in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and SingaporePart II Language planning5 One legacy, two legislations:Language policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait6 Language policy and practice in Taiwan in the early twenty-first century7 A tale of two Special Administrative Regions:The state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao8 One People, One Nation, One Singapore: Language policy and shifting identities among Chinese SingaporeansPart III Multilingual practices9 Speakers of "mother tongues" in multilingual China:Complex linguistic repertoires and identity construction10 Multilingualism and language policy in Singapore11 The discourses of lào yīngwén:Resistance to and subversion of the normative status of English in Taiwan12 Conventionalized code-switching in Taiwan: English insertions in Taiwan Mandarin13 Ubiquitous but unplanned: The utterance-final particle ê in Taiwan Mandarin14 Diverse language, diverse grammars:On quirky phenomena in Mandarin

"...the volume’s innovative approaches to language issues are a valuable contribution to Sinophone studies." - Ashley Liu, University of Maryland, MCLC