Language Planning and Policy in Asia, Vol. 1 : Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese Characters

Emeritus Professor Robert B Kaplan
Multilingual Matters Limited
 9781847690951
1-84769-095-5

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.

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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.