Sinophone
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who speaks one or more of the Sinitic or Chinese language(s), usually natively; a Chinese-speaking person.
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Sinophone. alt-of
"It mandates that all sinophones be put in exactly the same position as all anglophones, for otherwise the former’s right to use Chinese would be a lesser right than the right of the latter to use English."
- 1 Speaking one or more Sinitic or Chinese language(s), Chinese-speaking. not-comparable
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Sinophone. alt-of, not-comparable
"This roundtable addresses recent developments in sinophone postcolonial studies with such questions as, How is sinophone studies as a distinct discipline taking shape while still retaining its interdisciplinary imperative? How does sinophone postcolonial studies both critically engage and disengage with the “rise of China”?"
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More examples"This roundtable addresses recent developments in sinophone postcolonial studies with such questions as, How is sinophone studies as a distinct discipline taking shape while still retaining its interdisciplinary imperative? How does sinophone postcolonial studies both critically engage and disengage with the “rise of China”?"
Etymology
From Sino- + -phone.
From sino- + -phone.