This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context in these countries. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well known to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.
Table of Content
Series Overview
1. Language Policy and Planning in Chinese Characters, Japan, Nepal and Taiwan: Some Common Issues – Robert B. Kaplan and Richard B. Baldauf Jr
2. Chinese Character Modernisation in the Digital Era: A Historical Perspective – Zhao Shouhui
3. Japan: Language Planning and Policy in Transition – Nanette Gottlieb
4. The Language Situation in Nepal – Sonia Eagle
5. The Language Situation in Nepal: An Update – Sonia Eagle
6. The Language Planning Situation in Taiwan – Feng-fu Tsao
7. The Language Planning Situation in Taiwan: An Update – Feng-fu Tsao
Biographical Notes on Contributors
About the author
Richard B. Baldauf, Jr is Associate Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and a member of the Executive of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books. He is co-editor of Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific (Multilingual Matters, 1990), principal researcher and editor for the Viability of Low Candidature LOTE Courses in Universities (DEET, 1995), co-author with Robert B. Kaplan of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (Multilingual Matters, 1997) and Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Kluwer, 2003), and co-author with Zhao Shouhui of Planning Chinese Characters: Revolution, Evolution or Reaction (Springer, 2007).
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