| Description |
1 online resource (IX, 334 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sinica Leidensia ; volume 115.
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 115.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Contributors; Introduction: Languages in East and South Asia, 1000-1919; Benjamin A. Elman; The Vernacularization of Buddhist Texts: From the Tangut Empire to Japan; Peter Kornicki; The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge, and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea; Wang Sixiang; Rebooting the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam; John D. Phan; Mediating the Literary Classics: Commentary and Translation in Premodern Japan; Haruo Shirane; The Languages of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan; Daniel Trambaiolo |
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The Manchu Script and Information Management: Some Aspects of Qing China's Great Encounter with Alphabetic LiteracyMårten Söderblom Saarela; Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations; Benjamin A. Elman; Competing "Languages": "Sound" in the Orthographic Reforms of Early Meiji Japan; Atsuko Ueda; Writing and Speech: Rethinking the Issue of Vernaculars in Early Modern China; Shang Wei; Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
East Asia -- Civilization.
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East Asia. |
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Civilization. |
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East Asia -- Languages -- Grammar.
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Language and languages. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Linguistics -- East Asia.
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Linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Elman, Benjamin A. Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000-1919 Leiden : BRILL,c2014 9789004277595 |
| ISBN |
9789004279278 (e-book) |
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900427927X (e-book) |
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9789004277595 (hardback) |
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