...John Wolff Elementary Grammar of the Bisayan Language . By Antonio van Odijk , M.S.C. Convento, Opon, Cebu, Philippines : Privately Printed , 1959 . 2nd Ed. , 92 . Analysis of the Syntax and the System of Affixes of the Bisaya' Language of Cebu . By J. D. v.c. Bergh , M.S.C...

...Charles H. Heimsath Language Conflict and National Development: Group Politics and National Language Policy in India . By Jyotirindra Das Gupta . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1970 . viii, 293 pp. Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $6.75. Copyright © The Association...

...John T. Roberts Hindi Stories: A Dual Language Reader for Area and Advanced Language Students . Translated by Usha Saksena Nilsson . Madison : South Asian Language and Area Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Publication Series, No. 1), 1975 . xix, 324 pp. Glossary, Abbreviations...

... for justice," Lomperis concludes, "lies in the legitimacy with which the venture is viewed in the receiving demographic terrain" (p. 321). DAVID HUNT University of Massachusetts, Boston Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam. Edited by PETER W. M A R T I N , C O N R A D O 2 6 G , and GLORIA...

...Selma K. Sonntag Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes . By Amy H. Liu . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780812246728 (cloth). The Fall of Language in the Age of English . By Minae Mizumura . Translated...

...Deven M. Patel To counteract these views and establish a new analytical paradigm for Prakrit studies that explains how the language was “invented,” “formed,” “figured,” “known,” and then “forgotten,” Ollett weaves his presentation around inscriptional evidence (mostly from the Sātavāhana period...

...John DeFrancis Language Planning and Language Policy: East Asian Perspectives . Edited By Nanette Gottlieb and Ping Chen . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . v, 210 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1322 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Sander de Haan Gateway to the West: The Dutch Language in Colonial Indonesia, 1600–1950: A History of Language Policy . By Kees Groeneboer . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 1998 . xiv , 440 pp. $44.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Frederick W. Mote Abstract The study of Chinese differs in some important respects from the study of the other languages that figure importantly in American college curricula. This is because the structure and nature of the language itself are so different, and because Chinese culture is so...

...Akira Alan Komai A Japanese Reader; Graded Lessons in the Modern Language . Edited by Roy Andrew Miller . Rutland, Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1962 . 158 . $7.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 487 many educated Japanese...

...Earl H. Pritchard American-Chinese Relations 1784–1941. A Survey of Chinese-Language Materials at Harvard . By Robert L. Irick , Ying-shih Yü , and Kwang-ching Liu . Cambridge : Committee on American Far Eastern Policy Studies, History Department, Harvard, University , 1960 . Research...

...John J. Gumperz Abstract Most of the discussion regarding the language issue in India so far has revolved about two problems. One of these concerns the spread of Hindi knowledge in those areas or fields of endeavor where other regional languages or English are now used; the other, the enrichment...

...Li Chi China's Language Reform . By Tao-tai Hsia . Mirror Series A, No. 21. New Haven : The Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University , 1956 . 200 . Selected Bibliography, Supplement. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 420 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... tour listed above, but also by others who joined them in a discussion at the International House in Tokyo on March 16, 1960, including John Goheen, Eugene Langston, Edward Seidensticker, Thomas Smith, and Valdo Viglielmo. NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Japanese Language Schools in Tokyo Contributed by Peter...

...Clarence Norwood Weems An Index to English Language Periodical Literature Published in Korea, 1890–1940 . By Jefferson McRee Elrod . Seoul : Yonsei University , 1960 . 214 . [Electrostatically printed and bound Index , $20.00; microfilm of Index and of all ten periodicals indexed (22...

...Peter S. H. Tang Readings in Chinese Communist Documents: A Manual for Studies of the Chinese Language . By Wen-Shun Chi . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . 1963 . xvi, 478. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Akira A. Komai BOOK REVIEWS 125 Readings in Japanese Language and Linguistics. Part I. Selections. Part II. Annotations, and Readings in Japanese Literature. Part I. Selections. Part II. Annotations. By JOSEPH K. YAMAGIWA. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1965. 456, 823, 312...

... Communist movement. However, as mainly a collection of original materials on the origin and growth of the CCP, Wang Chien-min's work can be welcomed as a creditable addition to a bibliography glaringly inadequate to our needs. DONALD A. JORDAN University of Wisconsin A Bibliography of the Chinese Language...

...L. Carrington Goodrich The Chinese language ., By R. A. D. Forrest . London : Faber and Faber Ltd ., 1948 . 352 p. 355 . Mandarin primer; an intensive course in spoken Chinese . By Yuen Ren Chao . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1948 . 335 p. $6.00. Character...

...Henry S. Tatsumi A Bibliography of Japanese Dialects . By Robert H. Brower . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1950 . University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, Bibliographical Series, Number 2. ix, 75 . $2.00. Bibliographic Materials in the Japanese Language...