A Social View on the Chinese Language

✍ Scribed by Jerome L. Packard

Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A Social View on the Chinese Language is intended to be a general linguistic introduction to the Chinese language for the general reader and can be used in beginning-level Chinese linguistics courses. It is different from other Chinese linguistics surveys because, in addition to the usual areas of interest (such as the Chinese dialects, the history of the language, the characters and the grammar), it offers a view into linguistic phenomena that are also related to human behavior and society, such as how Chinese children and US college students learn Chinese, how the brain processes Chinese, the genetic origins of Chinese, language disorders and language loss in Chinese, differences in Chinese language use in different social groups, studies of Chinese reading and psycholinguistic aspects of Chinese language use.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Chinese Language Origins
3 Chinese Regionalects
4 Chinese Writing and Reading
5 Learning Chinese
6 Chinese Language and the Brain
7 Chinese Language and Culture
8 What Can We Expect for the Chinese Language?
Index

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