Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004279278 |
ISBN-13 | : 900427927X |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919 by :
Book excerpt: This volume presents a new conceptual framework that recognizes that in East Asia the literary and vernacular registers historically interacted and influenced each other as part of a unified, if hybrid, language system that was mastered by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese according to their own unique linguistic resources.