The Routledge handbook of chinese language and culture:

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.Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand...

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1. Verfasser: Jiao, Liwei (VerfasserIn, HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
Ausgabe:First published
Schriftenreihe:Routledge language handbooks
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Zusammenfassung: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.Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand years, while the Chinese language’s recorded history spans at least three thousand years, dating back to the Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions (OBI).This handbook is comprised of 17 chapters from 18 scholars including Victor Mair and William S-Y. Wang. Many chapters approach their respective topics with a comprehensive and historical outlook. Certain extensive subjects are addressed in multiple chapters, complementing one another. These topics include:- The languages and peoples of China, and the southern Chinese dialects- Mandarin’s evolution into a national language and its related writing reforms- Language as a propaganda tool in the Cultural Revolution and in contemporary China- Chinese idioms and colloquialismsThis book offers an approachable exploration of the subject, appealing to both specialists and enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture
Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:xv, 286 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781138052475
9781032687674

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