{"id":1870,"date":"2009-03-11T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2009-03-11T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T09:31:17","slug":"writing-taiwanese-1999-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2009\/writing-taiwanese-1999-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Taiwanese: 1999 study"},"content":{"rendered":"

This seems as good an announcement as any to end my hiatus from posting. Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em> has just rereleased a popular issue of likely interest to many readers of Pinyin News: Writing Taiwanese: The Development of Modern Written Taiwanese<\/a> (2.2 MB PDF), by Alvin Lin.<\/p>\n

The table of contents gives a pretty good picture of what’s inside:<\/p>\n

Preface<\/strong>
\nIntroduction<\/strong>
\nThe Status Quo: Characters and Taiwanese writing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Roots of Writing in Taiwanese: Wenyan<\/em>, baihua <\/em>and academic Taiwanese<\/li>\n
  2. The Missing 15 Percent: Developing a written vernacular<\/li>\n
  3. One Attempt at Finding the Missing 15 Percent: Yang Qingchu’s Mandarin-Taiwanese Dictionary<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Writing Romanized Taiwanese<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. The Roots of Romanized Taiwanese: Church Romanization<\/li>\n
    2. Church Romanization Today: The Taigu listserver<\/li>\n
    3. An Indigenous System: Liim Keahioong and Modern Literal Taiwanese<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Linguistic and Social Considerations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Some Linguistic Classifications<\/li>\n
      2. Dealing with Homonyms: Morphophonemic spelling<\/li>\n
      3. Tones in Taiwanese: Surface vs. Lexical tones<\/li>\n
      4. Representing Dialects: Picking a standard written form or representing all dialects<\/li>\n
      5. Summary of Linguistic Concerns: Deciding the degree of coding<\/li>\n
      6. Writing, Reading, Printing, Computing, Indexing and other Practical Concerns<\/li>\n
      7. Social Concerns: Tradition and Political Meaning<\/li>\n
      8. Conclusion: Future Orthography Policy on Taiwan<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Bibliography<\/strong>
        \nAppendices:<\/strong><\/p>\n