Asia's Orthographic Dilemma /

With the advent of computers and the rise of East Asian economies, the complicated character-based writing systems of East Asia have reached a stage of crisis that may be described as truly millennial in scope and implications. In what is perhaps the most wide-ranging critique of the sinographic scr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hannas, William C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1997]
Temas:
Chinese characters > East Asia.
Chinese language > Writing.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1: HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF WRITING IN EAST ASIA
  • 1. Chinese
  • 2. Japanese
  • 3. Korean
  • 4. Vietnamese
  • Part 2: CRITIQUE OF CHINESE CHARACTER-BASED WRITING
  • 5. Representation
  • 6. Learning and Literacy
  • 7. Reading
  • 8. Appropriateness to East Asian Languages
  • Part 3: FORCES FOR CHANGE
  • 9. The Chimera of Reform
  • 10. Language, Speech, and Writing
  • 11. Computing with Chinese Characters
  • 12. Chinese Characters and East Asian Culture
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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