title: Written at the Service of Oral: Topolect Literature Movement in Hong Kong
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metadata.value: Dreyzis, Yulia A.
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:21:26Z
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:21:26Z
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metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Dreyzis Yu.A. Written at the Service of Oral: Topolect Literature Movement in Hong Kong. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 415– 425.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.307
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/20022
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article describes the history of the Topolect Literature Movement (TLM), which developed in Hong Kong in the 1940s, and analyzes its typological features. TLM was one of the
  most radical projects implemented to replace writing in the national standard language based
  on northern dialects with writing in the local language variety (Cantonese / Yue). This variety
  was a non-northern idiom that performed the function of the L-language in diglossia. TLM
  authors did not try to break the connection between the written language and its oral form:
  many, primarily poetic, texts were somehow intended for public performance; in other types
  of texts, a close connection with the spoken language was supported by the strong presence
  of a narrator. Texts were recorded using Chinese characters (a standard character with an
  identical / similar reading was used to write down a topolect morpheme, or a character using
  it as a phonetic element indicating reading was created). The final failure of TLM, in addition to purely political factors, can be explained by a shift in attention from the urban literate
  audience to peasants. This resulted from the attitudes of the Chinese Communist Party that
  functioned in a rural environment, very different from the urban one, where TLM writers who
  sympathized with leftist ideas actually lived and worked. The prevalence of traditional poetic
  forms reflected a bias towards the traditional culture of the rural community. The willingness
  to focus on a local audience, even to the detriment of the national language unity, created
  a potential conflict with the aspirations of most of the Chinese intellectual elite who were
  determined to solve the problem of nation-building. Nevertheless, TLM serves as a unique example of the rapid development of writing in one of the Chinese topolects in the checkered
  twentieth century.
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metadata.value: This research was conducted at the Institute of Linguistics RAS through a grant from the Russian
  Science Foundation (project No. 19-18-00429).
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cantonese (Yue)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: written language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spoken language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vernacular
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Written at the Service of Oral: Topolect Literature Movement in Hong Kong
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metadata.value: Article
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