عنوان

The Twentieth-Century Secularization of the Sinograph in Vietnam, and its Demotion from the Cosmological to the Aesthetic

شماره

LA119371

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Twentieth-Century Secularization of the Sinograph in Vietnam, and its Demotion from the Cosmological to the Aesthetic

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

John Duong Phan

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article examines David Damrosch's notion of "scriptworlds"-spheres of cultural and intellectual transfusion, defined by a shared script-as it pertains to early modern Vietnam's abandonment of sinographic writing in favor of a latinized alphabet. The Vietnamese case demonstrates a surprisingly rapid readjustment of deeply held attitudes concerning the nature of writing, in the wake of the alphabet's meteoric successes. The fluidity of "language ethics" in early modern Vietnam (a society that had long since developed vernacular writing out of an earlier experience of diglossic literacy) suggests that the durability of a "scriptworld" depends on the nature and history of literacy in the societies under question. This article examines David Damrosch's notion of "scriptworlds"-spheres of cultural and intellectual transfusion, defined by a shared script-as it pertains to early modern Vietnam's abandonment of sinographic writing in favor of a latinized alphabet. The Vietnamese case demonstrates a surprisingly rapid readjustment of deeply held attitudes concerning the nature of writing, in the wake of the alphabet's meteoric successes. The fluidity of "language ethics" in early modern Vietnam (a society that had long since developed vernacular writing out of an earlier experience of diglossic literacy) suggests that the durability of a "scriptworld" depends on the nature and history of literacy in the societies under question. This article examines David Damrosch's notion of "scriptworlds"-spheres of cultural and intellectual transfusion, defined by a shared script-as it pertains to early modern Vietnam's abandonment of sinographic writing in favor of a latinized alphabet. The Vietnamese case demonstrates a surprisingly rapid readjustment of deeply held attitudes concerning the nature of writing, in the wake of the alphabet's meteoric successes. The fluidity of "language ethics" in early modern Vietnam (a society that had long since developed vernacular writing out of an earlier experience of diglossic literacy) suggests that the durability of a "scriptworld" depends on the nature and history of literacy in the societies under question. This article examines David Damrosch's notion of "scriptworlds"-spheres of cultural and intellectual transfusion, defined by a shared script-as it pertains to early modern Vietnam's abandonment of sinographic writing in favor of a latinized alphabet. The Vietnamese case demonstrates a surprisingly rapid readjustment of deeply held attitudes concerning the nature of writing, in the wake of the alphabet's meteoric successes. The fluidity of "language ethics" in early modern Vietnam (a society that had long since developed vernacular writing out of an earlier experience of diglossic literacy) suggests that the durability of a "scriptworld" depends on the nature and history of literacy in the societies under question.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

275-293

عنوان

Journal of World Literature

شماره جلد

1/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2405-6480

اصطلاح موضوعی

Chinese philology

اصطلاح موضوعی

early modern East Asia/Southeast Asia

اصطلاح موضوعی

language reform

اصطلاح موضوعی

script reform

اصطلاح موضوعی

Vietnamese literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Vietnamese philology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

John Duong Phan

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24056480-00102010

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y