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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
Language, Literacy, and Nationalism: Taiwan's Orthographic Transition from the Perspective of Han Sphere
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Chiung, Wi-vun Taiffalo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
The Han sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China, adopted Han characters and classical Han writing as the official written language before the 20th century. However, great changes came with the advent of the 20th century. After World War II, Han characters in Vietnam and Korea were officially replaced by the romanised "Chu…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Foreign Countries, Political Issues, Written Language
Japanese Officialdom and the Language.
Daniels, F. J. – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1978
Summarizes developments of attempts to standardize written and spoken Japanese, from World War II to the present. (AM)
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Planning, Official Languages, Orthographic Symbols