Language diversity in the Sinophone world : historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices / Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela

Abstract:

Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies to new perspectives from sociolinguistics. The book begins by charting historical trajectories in Sinophone multilingualism, beginning with late imperial China through to the emergence of English in the mid-19th century. The volume uses this foundation as a jumping off point from which to provide an in-depth comparison of modern language planning and policies throughout the Sinophone world, with the final section examining multilingual practices not readily captured by planning frameworks and the ideologies, identities, repertoires, and competences intertwined within these different multilingual configurations. Taken together, the collection makes a unique sociolinguistic-focused intervention into emerging research in Sinophone studies and will be of interest to students and scholars within the discipline.

Xinkan Liaoshi zhengjiao bianlan 新刊僚氏正教便覽 = Memorial de la vida christiana en lengua china. [Memorial de la vida cristiana. Chinese] / Luis, de Granada, Domingo de Nieva 羅明敖黎尼媽, Li Yuzhong 李毓中 [Fabio Yu-chung Lee], Chen Zongren 陳宗仁 ; Henning Klöter [Han Kelong 韓可龍] ; José, Regalado Trota ; José Luis Caño Ortigosa ; Shih Wen-cheng [Shi Wencheng 石文誠] ; Ng Louis Ianchun [Wu Xinquan 吳昕泉] ; Nieva, Domingo de 羅明敖黎尼媽, 1563-1606 ; Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588

本書現藏於奧地利國家圖書館，為西班牙道明會神父Domingo de Nieva編譯Luis de Granada的Memorial de la Vida Cristiana，旨在為當地唐人教友提供成為天主教徒所需的教義知識，並當地唐人的協助下，將該書編譯成閩南語，於1606年由唐人刻版印刷傳世。全書分為上下兩卷，第一卷闡述教義，包括天堂與地獄觀念、告解、十誡等內容；第二卷則為祈禱與禱文的指引。全書具體呈現出大航海時代唐人與西班牙人在宗教與文化交流的過程與成果，為人類「世界記憶」（Memory of the World）的重要資產。

Language notes: Prefaces also in English; some text of facsimiles also in Spanish.

Facsimile of the copy held at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (call number Sin, 282). See further the entry in the Chinese Christian Texts Database (entry no. 000001307).