TAIWAN AND VIETNAM：Language, Literacy and Nationalism

This book provides readers a better understanding of language, literacy, and nationalism in Taiwan and Vietnam.

This book“Taiwan and Vietnam: Language, Literacy and Nationalism” in English is an overall survey of Vietnam and Taiwan from a perspective of comparative studies. In addition, this book also introduces and compares the history of language, orthography and literature in the Hanji cultural sphere, such as Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. This book can be considered one of the rare publications introducing the history of language and literature of Taiwan to Vietnamese readers.

目錄

Foreword 1    

Foreword 2    

Foreword 3  

Preface       

01 Features and prospects in comparative studies of Vietnam and Taiwan

02 Language, literacy, and nationalism: Taiwan’s orthographic transition from the perspective of Han sphere

03 Road to orthographic Romanization: Vietnam and Taiwan

04 Sound and writing systems in Taiwanese, Chinese and Vietnamese

05 Learning efficiencies for Han characters and Vietnamese Roman scripts

06 Impact of monolingual policy on language and ethnic identity: a case study of Taiwan

07 Romanization and language planning in Taiwan

08 Pe̍h-ōe-jī as intangible cultural heritage of Taiwan

09 Taiwanese or Southern Min? On the controversy of ethnolinguistic names in Taiwan

10 Language attitudes toward written Taiwanese

11 Development of the Taiwanese proficiency test