1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455239103321

Autore

Taylor Gary <1953-, >

Titolo

Castration : an abbreviated history of western manhood / / Gary Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-95776-2

1-280-40737-9

0-203-90455-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

155.3/32

Soggetti

Castration anxiety

Masculinity

Men - Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Timeline; What Does Manhood Mean?; Contest of Texts Christianity, Freudianity, Humanism; Contest of Males The Power of Eunuchs; Contest of Organs Genital Plural; Contest of Gods Dream Divination; Contest of Reproductions The Rise of the Penis, the Fall of the Scrotum; Contest of Genders Castrating Women; Contest of Races Castrated White Men; Contest of Kinds Confusing Categories; Contest of Signs Branded and Domesticated Male Animals; Contest of Times What Would Jesus Do?; The Future of Man; Appendix Thomas Middleton and A Game at Chess; Acknowledgments; Notes

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911035156603321

Autore

Liu Tanzhou

Titolo

Chinese Ergative-like Construction : sentences like “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin" / / by Tanzhou Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

981-9774-86-1

9789819774869

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (526 pages)

Collana

New Advances in Chinese Grammar, , 3005-057X ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

WangTingting

Disciplina

495.15

Soggetti

Linguistics

Linguistics - Methodology

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Asia - Languages

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Syntax

Asian Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Major Debate on Chinese sentential subject and object in the 1950s -- The possessor-subject and possessum-object (PSPO) sentence and the splitting analysis of the possessive phrase -- An analytic approach based on movement -- Unaccusative Theory and related theories -- A synthetic approach based on construction and speaker empathy -- A constructional view of the Wangmian sentence and its discourse functions -- Conceptual blending and speaker empathy.

Sommario/riassunto

Studies on ergativity have provided valuable insights into understanding Chinese, but as research deepens, scholars have discovered areas where ergative theory is difficult to apply to Chinese. This book focuses on Chinese ergative-like sentences, exploring their distinctions from typical ergative structures and evaluating whether they truly fit the ergative classification. The authors focus on the



following questions: 1) Why and how has the Wangmian sentence, a simple six-character sentence in Chinese, roughly equivalent to “Wangmian’s father died” in English, sparked long-lasting, intense discussions in Chinese linguistics since the 1950s? 2) Is there a derivational relationship between the Wangmian sentence and other similar sentence structures? 3) How is the concept of ergativity applied to Chinese langauge, esp. in the generation of the Wangmian sentence, and what is its effect? 4) Are “die”, considered a Chinese ergative verb like “open” in English, and unergative verbs like “laugh” and “cry” truly distinct categories? 5) What valuable insights can we gain from examining the Wangmian sentence from a cognitive perspective? 6) How can we better understand the complexities between the diachronic evolution and synchronic analysis of the Wangmian sentence? Finally, the author compare the explanatory power of constructions and movements—two representative methods of synthetic and analytic approaches—discussing which better reveals the essence of Chinese grammar.