30 The Linguistic situation and language policy in Taiwan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Understanding China’s situation through its language life Foreword to The Language Situation in China: English Version Vol. 1 (2006–2007) v
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: Building a harmonious language life 1
5. I Language Work
6. 1 Language policies and regulations in China: An overview 11
7. 2 The promotion of Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese): An overview 27
8. 3 Evaluation of language management in China’s cities 41
9. 4 Language standardization in China 57
10. 5 Language resource monitoring and applied research on language 67
11. 6 The status of the language in the press and publishing 75
12. 7 Use of language in radio and television broadcasting 85
13. 8 Standardization of scientific terms in China 97
14. 9 Ethnic minority bilingual education in China 109
15. 10 The standardization and computerization of minority languages and writing 123
16. 11 Cross-provincial cooperation in enhancing the development of the spoken and written languages of the ethnic minorities in China 133
17. II Special Research
18. 12 Status quo of language use in medical documents and on medicinal packages 145
19. 13 The Language status of migrant workers 159
20. 14 Efforts of creating a good language environment for Běijīnɡ Olympic Games: A brief report 171
21. 15 A survey of Shànɡhǎi students’ use of Putonghua and Shànɡhǎi dialect 181
22. 16 Status quo of the Jinuo language 193
23. 17 A survey of Chinese characters, words and phrases used in news media (2005–2006) 203
24. 18 Investigation of Tibetan language informationization and software use 213
25. 19 An investigation into lettered words 221
26. III Language Focuses
27. 20 Dialect craze 237
28. 21 Controversy in Chinese language education: Classical or vernacular? 251
29. 22 Language endangerment 261
30. 23 The craze for English 271
31. 24 The use of characters for names 289
32. 25 Chinese buzzwords (2002–2006) 297
33. 26 A survey of media neologisms in 2006 305
34. IV Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
35. 27 Putonghua in Hong Kong 311
36. 28 Language and language policy in Hong Kong 325
37. 29 Language situation and language policy in Macao 333
38. 30 The Linguistic situation and language policy in Taiwan 351
39. 31 Internet language use 373
40. Appendixes
41. Appendix 1: Order of the President of the People’s Republic of China No. 33 387
42. Appendix 2: List of Standards for Language and Writing Planning 393
43. Appendix 3: List of Languages in China 401
44. Appendix 4: List of Institutions for Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 405
45. Appendix 5: Directories of Language Journals and Newspapers 409
46. Appendix 6: Distribution of Chinese Population Worldwide 413
47. A Record of Major Chinese Language Events (2005) 417
48. A Record of Major Chinese Language Events (2006) 427
49. Contents (Chinese version 2005 Volume I) 435
50. Contents (Chinese version 2006 Volume I) 438
51. Postscript 443
52. List of authors of the original Chinese text 445
53. Editorial Teams of the English Edition 451
54. Index 453