Wednesday 11 July 2012

Academic Research: Critique : Pre-imperial Chinese : Its hurdles towards becoming a world language, Dan Lu (2008)


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Critique : Pre-imperial Chinese : Its hurdles towards becoming a world language, Dan Lu (2008)

Law, Locky

English, Chinese, Lingua Franca, Global language, world language, international language, Culture, Economics, Power

2012-06-12

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2012-07-10
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Lu (2008) claims that the Chinese language (that is, Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua) faces four main obstacles in becoming a worthy competitor of the English language as a global language, including the difficulty of acquiring and using Chinese, the narrow acceptance of Chinese culture, the lack of Chinese publications globally and the hugeness of the English-learning Chinese population, all based on the assumption that China’s growth will have an negligible effect on her premises.



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    Critique : Pre-imperial Chinese : Its hurdles towards becoming a world language, Dan Lu (2008)
    https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9emHQBd5COmVWZDamRGME9teVE

    Pre-imperial Chinese : Its hurdles towards becoming a world language, Dan Lu (2008)
    http://benjamins.com/series/japc/18-2/art/13lu.pdf