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This article examines the street name signs of Taipei City in their ideological, linguistic, and semiotic dimensions. These different levels of analysis correlate with different processes of sign development. Combining critical toponymy and linguistic landscape research, it is claimed that in ideological and linguistic terms the post-war period has been one of the fundamental changes that has been arguably unparalleled elsewhere. By contrast, the ideological about-turn after the 1980s has had relatively little influence on the contents of street name signs. Alluding to Western-style modernity, semiotic features like the colour of the signs and the direction of writing are later innovations. It is also argued that in the broader context of their multilingual environment, there is an enormous discrepancy between visible normativity and audible multilingualism.

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This topical section brings together five essays that cover different aspects in the intersection of language and society in contemporary Taiwan. Briefly outlining the contents of each essay, this introduction focuses on the question how the essays complement each other in terms of level of analysis, empirical basis, and interdisciplinary approach. It shows how research on language planning on the national level and its underlying ideology ties in with analyses of the language choice behaviour of individual speakers at the receiving end of language planning. Claims derived from individual case studies in turn require quantitative data to allow for generalisability. Finally, interdisciplinary research in the intersection of language and media studies helps us to understand how language standards and dominant language ideologies are disseminated, reproduced, and challenged.

Introduction : language diversity in the Sinophone world / Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- What was standard Chinese in the nineteenth Century? : divergent views in the times of transition / Richard VanNess Simmons -- Manchu, Mandarin, and the politicization of spoken language in Qing China / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Romanizing southern Mǐn : missionaries and the promotion of written Chinese vernaculars / Don Snow -- Interactions across Englishes in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Singapore / Christiane Meirkord -- One legacy, two legislations : language policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait / Henning Klöter -- Language policy and practice in Taiwan in the early twenty-first century / Su-Chio Chen -- A tale of two special administrative regions : the state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao / David C.S. Li and Choi-Lan Tong -- One people, one nation, one Singapore : language policy and shifting identities among Chinese Singaporeans / Yeng Seng Goa and Yeow Wah Fong -- Speakers of "mother tongues" in multilingual China : complex linguistic repertoires and identity construction / Sihua Liang -- Multilingualism and language policy in Singapore / Peter Siemund and Lijun Li -- The discourses of lào yīngwén : resistance to and subversion of the normative status of English in Taiwan / Hsi-Yao Su -- Conventionalized code-switching in Taiwan : English insertions in Taiwan Mandarin / Julia Wasserfall -- Ubiquitous but unplanned : the utterance-final particle ê in Taiwan Mandarin / Chin-Hui Lin -- Diverse language, diverse grammars : on quirky phenomena in Mandarin / Jeroen Widenhof.

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