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53 XIN TANG: NEW CHINAterse, classical writing style has always enjoyed in China.The other factor is pressure which the redundant physicalstructure of Chinese characters exerts on style. If asyllable-morpheme is unambiguously identifiable by sight,there is no need to supplement this with increased serialredundancy as one would in speech. Thus it is not surprisingthat romanization of existing character texts may not beintelligible, since style must conform to the informationbearing characteristics of the vehicle of expression. It isnot a case of romanized Chinese being more redundant, butrather one of comparable redundancy being expressed ondifferent planes.This same wrongful identification of writing withlanguage has given rise to a popular misconception aboutChinese which the author (following Kennedy) calls theMonosyllabic Myth. This argument states that since thefunctional units of the Chinese lexicon are only onesyllable in length, the language can be unintelligible whenspoken or written in a phonetic script. An extreme versiongoes as far as to claim that the language is ·primitive·since the number of syllables will always be too small tocodify an expanding universe of referents. The authordemonstrates that such claims are possible only by basingone's calculations on character dictionaries, in which allmodem Chinese characters (morphemes) are listed, butonly a fraction of the possible character combinations,that is, words. If words are used as a basis for calculation,the monosyllabic portion of the Chinese lexicon wouldstand at less than 5 percent.Having established that Chinese can be romanized,DeFrancis considers whether such is advisable. The mainissue here is whether one wants a fully literate population.While allowing that the value of literacy can be overstated,as long as mass literacy remains a goal the author seeslittle hope for achieving this in the immediate future witha character script. If standards are set low enough, it is
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XIN TANGNEW CHINAISSN 0731-0897DI-w
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BIANJld HUAZhe yi qi, zhi you yi pi
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