The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jiao, Liwei

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro and micro perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351684071
• Artikelnr.: 70127044

Autorenporträt

Liwei Jiao is Senior Lecturer of East Asian Studies at Brown University. His research interests include Chinese phraseology, lexicography, language and culture, and language instruction. His publications include a series of Routledge dictionaries, such as 500 Common Chinese Idioms, 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions, and A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language. He has also contributed three entries, including one on Yuen Ren Chao, to the Encyclopedia of China (third edition, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part I
Writing, Sounds, and Culture
1 Chinese Manuscript Culture
2 A Century of Chinese Writing Reform
3 Chinese Phonology and Cross-Cultural Exchange in History
4 Monosyllabicity of Chinese in a Quadripartite Classification of World
Languages: Exceptions Explained
Part II
Philosophy, Politics, and Culture
5 The Linguistics of Chinese Philosophical Keywords
6 Power and Persuasion: Language and Politics in China
7 Chinese Exceptionalism: Linguistic Construction of a Superpower
8 Distinguishing between Early Modern and Modern Chinese Lexicons:
Mandarin's Journey to Becoming a national language
Part III
Words, Expressions, Discourse, and Culture
9 Chinese Idioms and Culture
10 Colloquialisms and Chinese Culture
11 Place Name as Personal Identification
12 Chinese Emotions: Words, Meaning and Culture
13 Classroom Discourse in Chinese as a Second Language
Part IV
China, Chinese, Dialects, and Culture
14 Sinophone Studies
15 A Dynamic Perspective on the Languages and Peoples of China
16 On the Origin of Han Chinese and Chinese Dialects of South China
17 The Common Language, Dialects and Chinese Cultural Traditions
Index