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South Korea: Language Policy and Planning in the Making
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Song, Jae Jung – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This monograph discusses South Korea's language situation in a language policy and planning context. This monograph consists of four parts. Part 1 presents a genetic, typological and sociolinguistic description of South Korea's national language, and an overview of minority languages, including English as well as other languages, recently…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Written Language, Sociolinguistics, Official Languages
The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Script Policy in Japan
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Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Information and communication technology appears to have had a profound impact on language use in Japan. An important issue arising from this is said to be the increase in the use of Chinese characters (kanji) outside the official standard. This development has made a re-appraisal of the existing script policy necessary in order to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Information Technology
Language Planning, Naming and Character Use in China
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Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language