The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity
Published on 26. June 2017
230 pages
978-1-351-96730-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition.
Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai'i at Manoa.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
7 s/w Tabellen
7 Tables, black and white
File size
3,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-96730-3 (9781351967303)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€67.30
Shipment within 15-20 days
Book
06/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
€215.41
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
Song Jiang is assistant professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Content
1: Introduction; 2: Descriptive studies of Chinese classifiers; 3: Linguistic relativity and empirical studies; 4: The etymological origins, embodied bases, and semantic extensions of Chinese classifiers; 5: The semantic structures of classifier categories; 6: Cognitive effects of Chinese classifiers; 7: Cognitive linguistics and teaching Chinese classifiers as a second language; 8: Conclusion
