I Language Work

1 An update on the use and management of standard spoken and written Chinese

2 Information management of spoken and written languages in China: An update on the latest efforts and development

3 An overview of ethnic language affairs

4 A survey of sci-tech terminology work

5 Status quo of sign language

II Special Research

6 The international dissemination of Chinese language

7 Language use in civil aviation

8 Language situation on the Qinghai-Tibet railway

9 Language standardization in criminal courts

10 Language of psychological assistance in post-earthquake services

11 The improvement of the language environment for the Shanghai Expo 2010

12 Language situation of the Three Gorges immigrants of the Changjiang River

13 A survey of the language use at the migrant schools in Shanghai

14 A survey on parents’ attitudes towards maids’ use of dialects

15 The language situation at foreign companies: A case study of Shanghai

16 An overview of languages used in Beijing markets catering to foreign customers: A case study of Silk Street

17 Language situation of Zhejiang’s Yiwu Small Commodity Market

18 Bilingual education in Altay Prefecture of Xinjiang

19 A survey of languages used by immigrants in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Group

20 The English translation of Chinese menus

21 Short message language use report

22 Buzzwords vis-á-vis social change in China from 1978 to 2008

III Language Focuses

23 Chinese elements in the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics

24 Language issues in advertising

25 The case of Zhao C

26 The Internet language craze

27 The three buzzwords: (Shanzhai),(Lei),and(Jiong)

28 Chinese catchwords of the year (2007–2008)

29 Chinese neologisms of the year (2007–2008)

IV Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan

30 New shifts in the medium of instruction policy of Hong Kong

31 Language policy and language education for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong

32 Legal language of Macao

33 Language situation in Taiwan

Appendix

1 A record of major Chinese language events (2007)

2 A record of major Chinese language events (2008)

Contents (Chinese version 2007)

Contents (Chinese version 2008)

Postscript

Editorial Teams of the English Edition

Index