Language Planning and Language Policy by Ping Chen Nanette Gottlieb

Author:Ping Chen, Nanette Gottlieb [Ping Chen, Nanette Gottlieb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136854392
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

5. Conclusion

Taiwan over the past century provides a textbook case that illustrates how political motivations can far outweigh linguistic factors in the design and implementation of policy on a standard language for the community (cf. Kaplan and Baldauf 1997:30). In the colonial period between 1895 and 1945, language policy served the purpose of alienating the local population from their ancestral and cultural roots in mainland China. In the post-colonial period, it served to integrate Taiwan with mainland China politically, culturally and symbolically, and, in so doing, to assert the legitimacy of the government removed from the mainland. To achieve these goals, a policy of monolingualism was pursued which aimed at replacing the predominant indigenous language with another language. Such a policy inevitably became a source of conflict on the island. With the changes in the political arena since the mid-1980s that feature a transfer of power from mainlanders who came after 1945 to those who had been living on the island before 1945, more attention is being paid to the acquisition and use of indigenous dialects and languages. It can be anticipated that language in Taiwan will henceforth be less of a source of conflict than before.

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