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