Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Foreword by Bernard Spolsky vii
4. Table of contents xi
5. Chapter 1. Three major linguistic issues of mankind in contemporary societies 1
6. Chapter 2. On mother tongue 17
7. Chapter 3. On planning of language function 39
8. Chapter 4. Some considerations on enhancing the national language capability 53
9. Chapter 5. Language is also a “hard power” 71
10. Chapter 6. On levels of language life 87
11. Chapter 7. On field language planning 105
12. Chapter 8. Characteristics of language life in contemporary China 123
13. Chapter 9. On foreign language planning in China 145
14. Chapter 10. The status of authoritative dialect in language standardization 157
15. Chapter 11. A supplement to The Status of Authoritative Dialects in Language Standardization 175
16. Chapter 12. Building up bilingual and bi-dialectical competence 185
17. Chapter 13. On the establishment of Chinese Language Resource Audio Database 199
18. Chapter 14. Some thoughts on the standardization of lexical items 215
19. Chapter 15. On terminology 229
20. Chapter 16. Reflection on the modernization of lexicography in China 247
21. Chapter 17. On Zhongguo Yuyan Shenghuo Lüpishu (Green Paper on the Language Situation in China) 263
22. Chapter 18. Issues of the Chinese language in the information age 281
23. Chapter 19. Language tasks in the information age 299
24. Chapter 20. The work of language standardization in the information age 313
25. Chapter 21. Constructing the grand platform of China Character Set 329
26. Chapter 22. On annotation of language knowledge in the corpus 341
27. Chapter 23. The needs for language learning and teaching Chinese as foreign language 357
28. Chapter 24. The significance of a study on the history of the international dissemination of Chinese 373
29. Chapter 25. Contemporary China: the core of international education of the Chinese language 379
30. Chapter 26. The intension and extension of qieyinzi 387
31. Chapter 27. The proposition of universal education in the Qieyinzi Movement 407
32. Chapter 28. Late Qing script reformers’ view of dialects 427
33. Chapter 29. Late Qing script reformers’ views on language unification 445
34. Chapter 30. Centenary of the promulgation of the state resolution Proposal for Establishing a Common National Language 469
35. Index 489