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The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language will truly meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of those who are interested in the Chinese language in different capacities and for different reasons, such as Sinologists, Chinese linguists, and teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language.
The Encyclopedia includes research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by 66 eminent academics in the field; from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference will be the most up to date and authoritative on the market; it will offer an a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests.
The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.
List of contents
List of Consultant Editors List of Contributors The Chinese Language: The Global, Historical, Lexicographical, and Linguistic Aspects - In Lieu of a Preface
Chan Sin-wai Acknowledgement 1. Ancient Chinese
Alain Peyraubce 2. Cantonese
Cheng Siu-Pong and Tang Sze-Wing 3. Cantonese Romanization
Cheng Siu-Pong and Tang Sze-Wing 4. Chinese Characters
John Yin Jinghua 5. Chinese Idioms
Jiao Liwei 6. Chinese Language and National Identity
Andrew Simpson 7. Chinese Language Education: Teacher Training
Jane Orton 8. Chinese Language in a Global Context
Tao Hongyin and
Liu Jin 9. Chinese Language Pedagogy
Wu Weiping 10. Chinese Linguistics
William S.Y. Wang 11. Chinese Linguistics: Pragmatics
Yan Jiang 12. Chinese Linguistics: Semantics
Hsieh Shu-Kai 13. Chinese Morphology
Jerome L. Packard 14. Chinese Neologisms: Word-formation Strategies in Chinese
Antonella Ceccagno15. Chinese: Parts of Speech
Candice Chi-Hang Cheung 16. Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings
Larry Herzberg 17. Chinese Psycholinguistics
Jerome L. Packard 18. Chinese Rhetoric
Andy Kirkpatrick 19. Chinese Slang
Robert L. Moore 20. Chinese Syntax
Walter Bisang 21. Chinese Taboo
Amy He Yun 22. Chinese 'Xiehouyu'
Grace Chang 23. Classical Chinese
Chris Wen-chao Li 24. Computational Linguistics
Xiaoheng Zhang 25. Corpus-based Study of Chinese
Tony McEnery and Richard Xiao 26. Elastic Words in Chinese
San Duanmu 27. Hakka Dialect
Lau Chun Fat 28. Hanyu Pinyin
Lilly Lee Chen 29. Hong Kong Sign Language
Gladys Tang 30. Lexicography
Cheung Kam-Siu 31. Lexicography in the Contemporary Period
Huang Chu-Ren, Li Lan, and Su Xinchun 32. Loanwords
Miao Ruiqin 33. Mandarin
Shi Dingxu 34. Mandarin and Other Sinitic Languages
Hilary Chappell and Li Lan 35. Metaphor in Chinese: Cognition, Culture and Society
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 36. Modern Chinese: Written Chinese
Feng Shengli 37. Poetic Prosody
Feng Shengli 38. Psycholinguistics: Reading Chinese
Liang Tao and Alice F. Healy 39. Semantic Change in Chinese
Janet Zhiqun Xing 40. Standard Chinese
Shi Dingxu 41. Syntax
Li Yafei 42. Wade-Giles Romanization System
Karen Steffen Chung
About the author
Chan Sin-wai is Professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Summary
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language will truly meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of those who are interested in the Chinese language in different capacities and for different reasons, such as Sinologists, Chinese linguists, and teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language.
