1st Edition
The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity
By Song Jiang
Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Song Jiang is assistant professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
