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A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.
This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancient and contemporary Chinese culture. It differs from the traditional design of dictionaries in that it includes detailed explanations, with examples, for different uses of the graphs most often used to represent function words in literary Chinese. To facilitate teaching and learning through association, the early meaning, extended meanings, and borrowed meanings for each graph are provided, along with explanations supported by the various stages of the historical development of the graph and other relevant research. Each word is grouped into the primary word class to which it belongs, based on its lexical or grammatical meanings, its collocations, and its function in a sentence. Modern idioms derived from words and phrases in the sample passages are provided in order to promote cultural knowledge and show the important role literary Chinese continues to play in everyday life. All Chinese words are provided with Putonghua romanization to facilitate learning and recall through sound; special pronunciations are explained.
This book can be used as a textbook, as extended reading, or as a reference work for undergraduate or graduate classes on literary/classical Chinese, Chinese manuscript studies, Chinese language and culture, Putonghua, translation studies, or even linguistics. It can also be used as an anthology from which the teacher can select passages for students to study.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
User's Guide
Design of the Dictionary
Abbreviations
Entries
an
ansu
bù
bùyì ...hu
dàn
ér
érhòu /
éry
éry y
er
ery
er
yún'er
f i
f u
fú
fú
gài
g n
g u
gù
hé
hé rú
héqí
hé wèi
hé y
héy u
hé
hé
hu
hu'ér /
huzai
huò
ji/j
jiàn/xiàn
kuàng
mò
mò. . . yú ......
n i ( / )
qí
q
qie
q ng
rán
ránhòu
ruò
ruò ......hé ......
shì
shú
shú y
si
sixu
su
su y
wéi
wéi
wéi ...shì
wéi ...zhi
wéi
wu
wú
wú
wún i /
wú
wù
xi
xìn
yan
yé /
ye
y
y wéi
y
yì
yú
yú
zai
zhe
zhi
zhu
Glossary of Technical Terms
Bibliography
Index of idioms
About the author
Mei Ah Tan, PhD (2008), University of Wisconsin–Madison, is Associate Professor of Chinese at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. She has published on classical Chinese language and literature as well as on multidisciplinary research at the crossroads of language, literature, and history.
Summary
A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.
