Quadri-syllabic schematic idioms in Chinese : description and acquisition / / Liu Li

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910639897903321
• Autore: Li Liu
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 9789811972027; 9789811972010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 pages)
• Disciplina: 737
• Soggetti: Chinese language - Idioms
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Research Orientation -- 1.2 Theoretical and Pedagogical Value -- 1.3 Organisation of the Book -- References -- 2 From Idioms to Constructions -- 2.1 Views on English Idiom Studies -- 2.1.1 Traditional Noncompositional View -- 2.1.2 Compositional/Multidimensional View -- 2.2 Constructional View on Idiomaticity -- 2.2.1 Idioms as Constructions -- 2.2.2 Constructions as Basic Linguistic Units -- 2.2.3 Features of Construction Grammar -- 2.2.4 Psychological Reality of Constructions in Language Processing -- 2.2.5 Schematic Idioms as Constructional Idioms -- 2.3 Studies on Chinese Idioms -- 2.3.1 Features of Chinese Idioms -- 2.3.2 Weakness of Current Chinese Idiom Definitions -- 2.3.3 Studies on Chinese Schematic Idioms as Constructions -- 2.3.4 Redefining Chinese Idioms -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- 3 Idiom Acquisition and Usage-Based Language Learning Theory -- 3.1 Models on Idiom Representation -- 3.1.1 The Direct Access Model -- 3.1.2 The Compositional Model -- 3.1.3 The Hybrid Model -- 3.1.4 Cognitive Motivation for Idiomatic Expressions -- 3.2 Factors in L1 Idiom Comprehension -- 3.3 Empirical Studies on Chinese Idiom Learning -- 3.4 A Critique on Current Studies of Idiom Learning -- 3.5 Usage-Based Language Learning Theory-How Constructions Are Learned -- 3.5.1 Schematisation and Entrenchment-Item-Based Learning -- 3.5.2 ; Explanation of Overgeneralisation-Entrenchment and Pre-emption -- 3.5.3 Research Methods in Usage-Based Model -- 3.5.4 Important Factors in Usage-Based Model -- 3.6 Summary -- References -- 4 Chinese Schematic Idioms-Productivity and Constraints -- 4.1 Semi-Fixed Patterns in Chinese Idioms -- 4.2 Distributional Analysis of XAXB Construction -- 4.2.1 Types of Relations in Chinese Lexical Words.; 4.2.2 Features of the Fixed Morpheme X in XAXB Construction -- 4.2.3 Constraints on Open Morphemes of A, B in XAXB Construction -- 4.2.4 A Case Study of the bu-A-bu-B Schema -- 4.2.5 Interpretations of XAXB Construction and the Distributional Statistics -- 4.2.6 Statistical Distribution of XAXB Expressions -- 4.2.7 Senses of bu-A-bu-B Expressions and the Natural Distribution -- 4.2.8 Statistical Distribution of bu-A-bu-B Expression in Corpus -- 4.3 Distributional Analysis of XAYB and AXBY Constructions -- 4.3.1 Productivity of XAYB Construction -- 4.3.2 Interpretations of XAYB and the Statistical Distribution -- 4.3.3 Statistical Distribution of XAYB Expressions in the Corpus -- 4.3.4 Productivity of AXBY Construction -- 4.3.5 Interpretations of AXBY and the Distributional Statistics -- 4.3.6 ABs Across the Constructions -- 4.4 Summary of Distributional Analysis -- 4.5 RQs and Design -- 4.5.1 RQs -- 4.5.2 Age Factor -- 4.5.3 Instruments -- 4.5.4 A Summary of Experimental Studies -- 4.6 Summary -- References -- 5 Study One -- 5.1 Experimental Design and Materials -- 5.1.1 Participants -- 5.1.2 Procedures -- 5.1.3 Scoring -- 5.2 Results of Study One -- 5.2.1 Results of the Acceptability Judgment Test -- 5.2.2 Results of Sentence Production Task -- 5.3 Discussions -- 6 Study Two -- 6.1 Experimental Design and Materials -- 6.1.1 Participants -- 6.1.2 Procedure -- 6.1.3 Scoring -- 6.2 Results -- 6.2.1 Results of the Acceptability Judgment Test in Study Two -- 6.2.2 Results of Sentence Production Task -- 6.3 Discussions on Study Two -- 7 Study Three -- 7.1 Research Method -- 7.1.1 Design and Materials -- 7.1.2 Participants -- 7.1.3 Procedure -- 7.2 Results of Study Three -- 7.3 Summary and Discussions of Study Three -- Reference -- 8 Study Four -- 8.1 Research Method -- 8.1.1 Design and Materials -- 8.1.2 Participants -- 8.1.3 Procedure.; 8.2 Results and Discussion of Study Four -- 8.3 Summary of Four Experimental Studies -- Reference -- 9 Error Analysis in Sentence Production Tasks -- 9.1 Classification of Error Types -- 9.2 Overall Error Distribution in Sentence Productions -- 9.2.1 Syntactic Restriction Violations -- 9.2.2 Semantic Restriction Violations -- 9.2.3 Sense Disagreement -- 9.2.4 Incomplete Responses -- 9.3 Patterns in Error Type Distribution -- 9.4 Summary -- References -- 10 Discussion and Conclusion -- 10.1 General Results -- 10.2 Effects of Identified Factors -- 10.2.1 Input Frequency -- 10.2.2 Structural Complexity and Internal Semantic Relation -- 10.2.3 Chunk Selection of Open Morphemes -- 10.2.4 Age -- 10.3 Empirical Evidence of Schematic Idioms as Constructions -- 10.4 Representations of Schematic Idioms -- 10.4.1 Entrenchment, Schematisation and Pre-emption -- 10.4.2 Emergentist Model on Idiom Learning -- 10.4.3 Whole-Form Frequency Effect -- 10.5 Implications for Language Pedagogy -- 10.6 Limitations of the Present Study -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- Bibiliography.