Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts

Nicola McLelland is Professor in German and History of Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include language standardization, multilingualism, the history of language learning and teaching, and the history of linguistics.Hui Zhao is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, Chinese sociolinguistics, multilingualism and language variation.

• ContributorsNote on the Use of Original Scripts in This VolumeNicola McLelland and Hui Zhao: Introduction: Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts – Asian PerspectivesThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/5749388#.YaiwuNDP3csPart 1: Histories of Standardization in Multilingual ContextsChapter 1. S. Imtiaz Hasnain: Language Codification: Coloniality, Society and HistoryChapter 2. Mariarosaria Gianninoto: Linguistic Variation in Late Qing Western Sources: An Analysis of Edkins’ Grammar of ShanghaineseChapter 3. Jiaye (Jenny) Wu: Teaching Mandarin Pronunciation to Mongolian Learners in Early Republican Period China: The Case of the Mongolian Han Original Sounds of the Five Regions Ménghàn Hébì Wǔfāng Yuányīn, 蒙漢合璧五方元音Part 2: Standardization and Variation in Multilingual China: Implications for Education, Testing, Policy and PracticeChapter 4. Anwei Feng: Reconciling Multilingualism and Promotion of the Standard Language in Education in ChinaChapter 5. Lian Luo: Language Standards in Language Testing: The Case of Variation in Written Chinese Proficiency Tests for Second Language LearnersChapter 6. Hui Zhao: Social Meaning and Variation in Perception: Beijingers’ Attitudes Towards Beijing MandarinThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/5749522#.Yaiw-9DP3csChapter 7. Wang Xiaomei: Global Chinese and Malaysian Mandarin: Transnational Standards for the Chinese LanguagePart 3: Standardization and Minoritized Languages in Multilingual ContextsChapter 8. Alexandra Grey: How Standard Zhuang has Met with Market ForcesThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/5749586#.Yai0RNDP3csChapter 9. Ying Sargin: Is Sibe a Linguistic Continuation of Manchu?Chapter 10. Rigdrol Jikar: Language Standardization for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of ChinaChapter 11. Tsering Samdrup and Hiroyuki Suzuki: Politeness Strategies, Language Standardization and Language Purism in Amdo TibetanChapter 12. Moira Saltzman: Erasure and Revitalization of an Endangered Language: The Case of Jejueo in South KoreaChapter 13. Suwilai Premsrirat: Standardizing Indigenous Languages in Thailand Through Orthography Development and Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: The Case of Patani MalayPart 4: Negotiating Standards and Variation: Case Studies from JapaneseChapter 14. Patrick Heinrich: After Language Standardization: Dialect Cosplay in JapanChapter 15. Hideko Abe: Negotiating ‘Standard’ Gendered Speech in Japanese: The Case of Transgender SpeakersChapter 16. Mie Hiramoto: Changes in Tôhoku Dialect as Spoken in Hawai‘iIndex

This volume makes an essential contribution to the critical task of decolonizing sociolinguistics, by making the discipline more inclusive and representative. The case studies – drawn from south, southeast, east, and inner Asia – broaden the scope of sociolinguistic knowledge and stimulate important theoretical developments in our understanding of language standardization.