LEADER 03332nam 22007095 450 001 9910484472303321 005 20220119221243.0 010 $a9783030634759 010 $a3030634752 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-63475-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011946316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6631341 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6631341 035 $a(OCoLC)1257078228 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-63475-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011946316 100 $a20210526d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words $eA Lexical and Semantic Analysis /$fby Adrian Tien, Lorna Carson, Ning Jiang 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (254 pages) 311 08$a9783030634742 311 08$a3030634744 327 $a1. What Is All the Fuss About? -- 2. An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon -- 3. Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese -- 4. Four Representative Offensive Items from the Chinese Lexicon -- 5. Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects -- 6. Offensive Words in Chinese Cyberspace -- 7. Offensive Language and First Language Acquisition of Chinese -- 8. Offensive Language and Sociocultural Homogeneity in Singapore: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective -- 9. So, What Was All the Fuss About?. 330 $aThis book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics. Adrian Tien was Associate Professor in Chinese Studies (Linguistics) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His co-authors, also at Trinity, are Lorna Carson, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, and Ning Jiang, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies. . 606 $aLinguistics 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aCulture 606 $aOriental languages 606 $aAnthropological linguistics 606 $aLinguistics 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aSociology of Culture 606 $aOriental or Semitic Languages 606 $aLinguistic Anthropology 615 0$aLinguistics. 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aOriental languages. 615 0$aAnthropological linguistics. 615 14$aLinguistics. 615 24$aSociolinguistics. 615 24$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aOriental or Semitic Languages. 615 24$aLinguistic Anthropology. 676 $a495.12 676 $a495.17 700 $aTien$b Adrian$0847459 702 $aCarson$b Lorna 702 $aJiang$b Ning 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484472303321 996 $aAn Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words$92276574 997 $aUNINA