Download or read book An Investigation of Various Linguistic Changes in Chinese and Naxi written by Jung-yao Lu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative analysis of historical linguistics focuses on reconstructing ancient patterns based on diachronic records and typological data from several languages or dialects in a language group. The ultimate aim of the comparative reconstruction which requires significant cross-linguistic observation and theoretical reasoning is to demonstrate the historical process of language changes. This book considers the diachronic development of both the Chinese language and the Naxi language, focusing particularly upon six contentious linguistic issues that are associated with various linguistic changes in most areas of the grammar of these languages, including phonological changes, semantic changes, syntactic changes, and contact-induced changes. These linguistic issues are: (1) tonal splits in proto-checked syllables and subgrouping of Loloish; (2) the semantic development of RETURN–还 in Chinese; (3) the semantic development of TAKE–把 in Chinese; (4) the development of agentive passive markers in certain dialects of Chinese; (5) definiteness and nominalization, relativization, and genitivization in Chinese; and (6) the development of nominalization, relativization, and genitivization in Naxi. This volume provides new methods and perspectives through which these issues can be analyzed and resolved on the basis of typological and diachronic evidence. It uses cross-linguistic data from Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages in order to reconstruct various diachronic developments in Chinese and Naxi.
Download or read book Language Contact and Change in Chinese written by Guangshun Cao and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.
Download or read book An Investigation Into Language Shift Amongst Rural and Urban Naxi Students written by Qing-hong Li and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is an important symbol of ethnicity. The study investigates the extent of minority language maintenance and language use by students of Naxi nationality, one of the ethnic groups in Yunnan province. The writer is herself a member of this ethnic group. Data was collected from 60 oral productions of Naxi and Putonghua, the official language of China, by rural and urban middle school students of Lijiang. As the extent to which students acquire the Naxi language and Chinese is different, methodologies were used differently. Naxi people only speak the language but cannot use the written form. Analysis focuses on the Naxi phonological encoding by using Levelt's Bilingual Production Model as well as on five features of Putonghua. Additional insights are sought through questionnaires and interviews. The results show that there are indeed significant differences between the Naxi and Putonghua production of urban and rural Naxi students. The study reveals that rural students preserve their minority language well, while their Putonghua has a Naxi local accent. Urban students who have a greater need and opportunity to communicate with local Han people and tourists from home and abroad, exhibit a much higher proficiency in Putonghua compared to rural students. This is in keeping with Schumann's Acculturation theory that the degree to which a learner acculturates to the target language group will control the degree to which he acquires the second language. The study also reveals a related tendency towards reduced use and even non-use of Naxi language amonst these urban students. Thus, the study suggests the need for a course about Naxi language and culture if Naxi identity is to be maintained. Although the study has certain limitations, it does suggest that a better understanding of phonological systems of the two languages will contribute a great deal to the preservation of the Naxi language and also to speaking the official language well for survival in the broader social and economic context.
Download or read book Language Rights in a Changing China written by Alexandra Grey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China’s largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity. The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a study of China’s language policy. The book refines Grey’s award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A. Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study “decenter[s] all types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond China.
Download or read book The Linguistic Landscape in China written by Yanmei Han and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A STUDY OF THE SADU LANGUAGE written by BAI Bibo and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A STUDY OF THE SADU LANGUAGE provides linguists with intriguing data conducive to interlingual comparisons and particularly, to the study of Generative Linguistics that aims to discover Universal Grammar and Language Faculty of human kind. It offers readers a glimpse of China’s research in the field of ethnic minority languages and does good to linguistic exchanges between China and other countries. The Sadu language is a newly discovered yet seriously endangered one spoken by an ethnic group in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province. It has a small number of 1505 speakers who claim themselves to be Sadu though officially the group is taken as part of the Bai people. It differs not only from Bai, however, but also from the southern dialects of the Yiish branch spoken by the neighboring communities, such as Nisu, Nasu, and Shansu.
Download or read book 2014 written by Li Yuming and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese languge and linguistics, China's languge, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.
Download or read book A Study of Chinese Characters written by Wang Guiyuan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature, this book brings together the author’s research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese palaeography. The 23 chapters in this book focus on two aspects of Chinese characters. The first 13 chapters centre on the evolution of Chinese characters, analysing the composition system and its transformation, the motivation, and mechanisms behind its evolution, as well as the methodology of the study of ancient characters. The subsequent 10 chapters mainly revolve around Shuowen Jiezi, one of the oldest character dictionaries in China. The author offers a novel understanding of the core issues related to this most important philological work, such as the version of the dictionary, misunderstandings in previous scholarship, and its relations with other palaeographical materials. The title will appeal to students and scholars of Sinology, Chinese philology, and palaeography, as well as Chinese characters.
Download or read book Education Ethnicity Society and Global Change in Asia written by Gerard A. Postiglione and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades, Gerard A. Postiglione has witnessed the globalization of education and society in Hong Kong, China and the wider Asian region. His research emphasizes the diversity and complexity of the region, from studies of education and the academic profession during Hong Kong’s retrocession, to reform of ethnic minority education and the rise of world class universities in the Chinese mainland, as well as the complexity of mass higher education in an increasingly dynamic Asia. This selection of 12 of his most representative papers and chapters documents his scholarship in comparative higher education in China, Hong Kong and Asia.
Download or read book The Sino Tibetan Languages written by Randy J. LaPolla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Download or read book English Language Education Across Greater China written by Anwei Feng and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the spread of English and English education across Greater China through sociolinguistic studies of Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, and in-depth analysis of English language use and education in economically booming areas of Mainland China such as Shanghai and Guangdong and underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang.
Download or read book China Yunnan Province written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in southwest China, Yunnan Province is the centre of a growing focus on ecotourism. This guide covers Yunnan's many attractions including the provincial capital of Kunming, legendary Yangtze and Mekong rivers, Buddhist stupas and Tibetan border monasteries.
Download or read book General Trends of Chinese Linguistic Changes Under Communist Rule written by Chʻi Li and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inspirations from a Lofty Mountain Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S Y Wang on his 90th Birthday written by Gang PENG and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally acclaimed linguist, Professor William S-Y. Wang has had a distinguished career both in Hong Kong and abroad. In addition to formulating the theory of lexical diffusion, his academic interests have included experimental phonetic studies, language simulation and modeling and, more recently, aging and language. In honor of Prof. Wang’s 90th birthday, his colleagues and friends from around the world have contributed more than 30 articles for a two-volume commemorative Festschrift. The contents of this English volume include diachronic, synchronic, and interdisciplinary linguistic studies from authors across Asia and in the United States. Focusing mainly on the Chinese language, topics include the evolution of language, the relationship between language and music, and the functions and processes of the brain involved in language production. Written by and for seasoned language researchers, this Festschrift will also appeal to students of Chinese linguistics and readers with an interest in Chinese culture, history, and neurology.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies written by Zhengdao Ye and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings
Download or read book Portraits of primitives written by Susan Debra Blum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of ChinaOs fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and most other groups as Oprimitive.O In post-socialist China, popular conceptions of self, person, and nation intersect with political and scholarly concerns with identity, sometimes contradicting them and sometimes reinforcing them. In Portraits of OPrimitives, O Susan D. Blum explores how Han in the city of Kunming, in southwest China, regard ethnic minorities and, by extension, themselves. She sketches Oportraits, O or cognitive prototypes, of ethnic groups in a variety of contexts, explaining the perceived visibility of each group (which almost never correlates with size of population). Ideas of OHannessO can be understood in part through Han desire to identify unique characteristics in ethnic minorities and also through Han celebration of the differences that distance minorities. The book considers questions of identity, alterity, and self in the context of a complex nation-state, employing methods from linguistic anthropology and psychological anthropology, as well as other forms of cultural analysis. Providing nuanced views of relationships among political, scholarly, and popular models of identity, this book will be an invaluable guide for those working in China studies, anthropology, and ethnic studies.
Download or read book Chinese Word Order written by Jill Christine Jepson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
