Gaining a green thumb for grassroots language activism

Alexandra Grey

Gaining a green thumb for grassroots language activism

Alexandra Grey

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Abstract

I was surprised, frankly, during my recent fieldwork to find Zhuang language being used in a QQ chatroom in China. Surprised because Zhuang text is absent from the linguistic landscape. Surprised because many of my interview participants reported they had no Zhuang literacy practices: some young Zhuang people had not even realised local street names and a line on the every Chinese bank note were in Zhuang; it’s written in the Latin alphabet, so they had assumed it was English. But on social media, there it was.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2014

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Gaining a green thumb for grassroots language activism

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