EAN: 9781501521003

LANGUAGE RIGHTS IN A CHANGING CHINA - ALEXANDRA...

China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades  but what do they mean today?
Answering with nuance and empirical detail  this book examines the rights through a
sociolinguistic study of Zhuang  the language of China's largest minority group. The analysis
traces language policy from the Constitution to local government practices  investigating how
Zhuang language rights are experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity. The
study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant marketised and mobility-focused
language ideologies which ascribe low value to Zhuang. However  people still value a Zhuang
identity validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a Bourdieusian approach to
language  power and legal discourse  this is the first major publication to integrate
contemporary debates in linguistics about mobility  capitalism and globalization into a study
of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's award-winning doctoral dissertation  which
received the Joshua A. Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study decenter[s] all types
of sociolinguistic assumptions. It is a thought-provoking work on minority rights and language
politics  relevant beyond China.

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