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UNINA9910455239103321 |
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Taylor Gary <1953-, > |
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Castration : an abbreviated history of western manhood / / Gary Taylor |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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1-135-95776-2 |
1-280-40737-9 |
0-203-90455-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Castration anxiety |
Masculinity |
Men - Psychology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-298) and index. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9911035156603321 |
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Autore |
Liu Tanzhou |
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Chinese Ergative-like Construction : sentences like “Wangmian Si-le Fuqin" / / by Tanzhou Liu |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 |
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981-9774-86-1 |
9789819774869 |
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[1st ed. 2025.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (526 pages) |
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Collana |
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New Advances in Chinese Grammar, , 3005-057X ; ; 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Linguistics |
Linguistics - Methodology |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
Asia - Languages |
Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar |
Research Methods in Language and Linguistics |
Syntax |
Asian Languages |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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