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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810703103321

Titolo

The Routledge handbook of Chinese applied linguistics / / edited by Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, and Barbara Meisterernst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019

ISBN

1-317-23114-7

1-317-23115-5

1-315-62515-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (811 pages)

Disciplina

495.1

Soggetti

Chinese language

Applied linguistics - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: language in action, language in context / Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese philosophy, religions and language / Friederike Assandri and Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese language and Buddhism / Jiandao, Jianxun and Jiajuan Xiong -- Chinese language and Christianity / Federico Masini -- Chinese language and the Silk Roads / Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese, food and menus / Yao Yao and Qi Su -- Chinese language and fruits / Shelley Ching-yu Depner -- Colour terms in Chinese / Huei-ling Lai -- The function of poetic language and rhymes in pre-modern Chinese literature / Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese cultures of learning: elicited metaphor research / Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi -- Learning "Chinese" as a heritage language: challenges, issues and ways forward / Patricia Duff and Liam Doherty -- Chinese language and gender research marjorie / K.M. Chan and Yuhan Lin -- Varieties of Chinese: dialects or sinitic languages? / Maria Kurpaska -- Variations in world Chineses / Jingxia Lin, Dingxu Shi, Menghan Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang -- Chinese language and new immigrants / Chin-Chin Tseng and Chen-Cheng Chun -- Chinese language and social justice / Susan D. Blum -- Chinese language arts: the role of language and linguistic devices in literary and artistic expressions / Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens, Tania Becker, Regina Llamas, King-fai Tam and Barbara



Meisterernst -- Chinese multimodal resources for dialogue act analysis / Alex Chengyu Fang, Yanjiao Li, Jing Cao and Harry Bunt -- Chinese and counterfactual reasoning / Yan Jiang -- Linguistic synaesthesia in Chinese / Chu-Ren Huang and Jiajuan Xiong -- Chinese and emotion analysis / Sophia Yat Mei Lee -- Humour in Chinese / Lingling Ge and Yuanjian He -- Irony in Chinese languages: an overview and a case study / I-wen Su and Shuping Huang -- Metaphor in Chinese / Kathleen Ahrens and Siaw-Fong Chung -- Commendatory and derogatory expressions in Chinese / Janet Zhiqun Xing -- Cursing, taboo and euphemism / Zhuo Jing-Schmidt -- Chinese for specific purposes: a broader perspective / Haidan Wang and Song Jiang -- Chinese translation in the twenty first century / Weixiao Wei and Chris Shei -- The study of Chinese language advertisements / Doreen D. Wu and Chaoyuan Li -- Chinese communication in a globalizing world: an outline of an emerging contemporary Chinese discourse / Shi-xu -- Computer and Chinese writing system / Qin Lu -- Digital language resources and NLP tools / Chu-Ren Huang and Nianwen Xue -- Information quality: linguistic cues and automatic judgments / Qi Su -- Chinese neologisms / Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Shu-Kai Hsieh -- Online language resources: advances, applications and challenges / Weidong Zhan and Xiaojing Bai -- The impact of information and communication technology on Chinese language life / Jingwei Zhang and Daming Xu -- Chinese and aphasia / Sam-Po Law and Anthony P.-H Kong -- A study of syntactic ability and its relation to theory of mind  in cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder / Man Tak Leung and Hong Lan Li -- Language and the brain in the sunset years / William S-Y. Wang -- Concept composition during language processing: two case studies and a model / Maria M. Piñango -- Chinese reading acquisition / Chia-Ying Lee -- Neural mechanisms for the processing of Chinese / Wei Zhou, Linjun Zhang, Hua Shu and Ping Li -- Tone and music processing in Chinese / Caicai Zhang -- Chinese sociolinguistics / Daming Xu and Jingwei Zhang -- Linguistic anthropology of Chinese / Chen-chun E -- Chinese rhetoric / Yan Jiang -- Investigating sign languages in the Chinese context / Jia Li, Jia He and Gladys Tang -- Chinese psycholinguistics: a typological overview / Chien-Jer Charles Lin.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora, and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language. It examines how Chinese language is used in different contexts, and how the use of Chinese language affects culture, society, expression of self, persuasion of others; as well as how neurophysiological aspects of language disorder affects how we function, and how the advance of technology changes the way the Chinese language is used and perceived. The handbook concentrates on the cultural, societal, and communicative characteristics of the Chinese language environment. Focusing on language use in action, in context, and in vivo, this book intends to lay empirical grounds for collaboration and synergy among different fields"--