Language Diversity in the Sinophone World

Introduction: Language diversity in the sinophone world

PART I

Historical trajectories

1 What was standard Chinese in the nineteenth Century?

Divergent views in the times of transition

2 Manchu, Mandarin, and the politicization of spoken language in Qing China

3 Romanizing Southern M?n:

Missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars

4 Interactions across Englishes in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao,

and Singapore

Part II

Language planning

5 One legacy, two legislations:

Language policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait

6 Language policy and practice in Taiwan in the early twenty-first century

7 A tale of two Special Administrative Regions:

The state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao

8 One People, One Nation, One Singapore:

Language policy and shifting identities among Chinese Singaporeans

Part III

Multilingual practices

9 Speakers of "mother tongues" in multilingual China:

Complex linguistic repertoires and identity construction

10 Multilingualism and language policy in Singapore

11 The discourses of lao yingwen:

Resistance to and subversion of the normative status of English in Taiwan

12 Conventionalized code-switching in Taiwan:

English insertions in Taiwan Mandarin

13 Ubiquitous but unplanned:

The utterance-final particle e in Taiwan Mandarin

14 Diverse language, diverse grammars:

On quirky phenomena in Mandarin