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Divided Languages?: Diglossia, Translation and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World

Divided Languages?: Diglossia, Translation and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World

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Series: Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Euro

Writing InstructionAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319035207
ISBN13: 9783319035208
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 30 2014
Pages: 259
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Part I: Diglossia and Functional Variation.- Understanding the Essence of Diglossia.- Czech Diglossia: Dismantling or Dissolution?.- Diglossia and its Discontent: The Linguistics of National Crisis in Early Twentieth-Century China.- Chinese Diglossia: Past and Present.- Shifting Patterns of Chinese Diglossia: Why the Dialects May Be Headed for Extinction.- Part II: Linguistic Awareness and Changing Perceptions of Varieties.- Discourse on Poetic Language in Early Modern Japan and the Awareness of Linguistic Change.- Genbun itchi and Questione della lingua: Theoretical Intersections in the Creation of a New Written Language in Meiji Japan and Renaissance Italy.- Linguistic Awareness and Language Use: The Chinese Literati at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.- Homogenization or Hierarchization?--A Problem of Written Language in the Public Sphere of Modern Japan.- Part III: Diglossia and Translation.- Modeling the Shifting Face of the Discourse Mediator.- Translation within the Polyglossic Linguistic System of Early Meiji-Period Japan.- Genbun itchi and Literary Translations in Later Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Role of Literary Translations in Forming the De-aru Style.- The Role of Russian in the Dissolution of Diglossia in Japan: Translations by Futabatei Shimei.

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