Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatteri
2. Contentsv
3. Contributorsvii
4. Note on the Use of Original Scripts in this Volumex
5. Introduction: Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts – Asian Perspectives1
6. Part 1 Histories of Standardization in Multilingual Contexts
7. 1 Language Codification: Coloniality, Society and History21
8. 2 Linguistic Variation in Late Qing Western Sources: An Analysis of Edkins’ Grammar of Shanghainese40
9. 3 Teaching Mandarin Pronunciation to Mongolian Learners in Early Republican Period China: The Case of the Mongolian Han Original Sounds of the Five Regions (Meng Han Hebi Wufang Yuanyin, 蒙漢合璧五方元音)56
10. Part 2 Standardization and Variation in Multilingual China: Implications for Education, Testing, Policy and Practice
11. 4 Reconciling Multilingualism and Promotion of the Standard Language in Education in China83
12. 5 Language Standards in Language Testing: The Case of Variation in Written Chinese Proficiency Tests for Second Language Learners104
13. 6 Social Meaning and Variation in Perception: Beijingers’ Attitudes Towards Beijing Mandarin128
14. 7 Global Chinese and Malaysian Mandarin: Transnational Standards for the Chinese Language147
15. Part 3: Standardization and Minoritized Languages in Multilingual Contexts
16. 8 How Standard Zhuang has Met with Market Forces163
17. 9 Is Sibe a Linguistic Continuation of Manchu?183
18. 10 Language Standardization for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China203
19. 11 Politeness Strategies, Language Standardization and Language Purism in Amdo Tibetan223
20. 12 Erasure and Revitalization of an Endangered Language: The Case of Jejueo in South Korea241
21. 13 Standardizing Indigenous Languages in Thailand Through Orthography Development and Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: The Case of Patani Malay258
22. Part 4 Negotiating Standards and Variation: Case Studies From Japanese
23. 14 After Language Standardization: Dialect Cosplay in Japan281
24. 15 Negotiating ‘Standard’ Gendered Speech in Japanese: The Case of Transgender Speakers298
25. 16 Between Standardization and Localization: Changes in Tôhoku Dialect as Spoken in Hawai‘i315
26. Index335