The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics

810 Pages·2019·23.47 MB·English

by  Chu-Ren Huang

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
CHINESE APPLIED LINGUISTICS
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to
acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities
through Chinese language.
It examines how Chinese language is used in different contexts, and how the use of Chinese
language affects culture, society, expression of self and persuasion of others; as well as how
neurophysiological aspects of language disorder affect how we function and how the advance
of technology changes the way the Chinese language is used and perceived. The Handbook
concentrates on the cultural, societal and communicative characteristics of the Chinese
language environment.
Focusing on language use in action, in context and in vivo, this book intends to lay empirical
grounds for collaboration and synergy among different fields.
Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Fellow of
the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and a permanent member of the International
Committee on Computational Linguistics. He led the construction of language resources
such as CKIP Lexicon, Sinica Corpus, Sinica Treebank, Sinica BOW, Chinese WordNet and
Hantology. His upcoming books include Computational Processing of the Chinese Language,
Digital Humanities: Bridging the Divide and Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics.
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. She is a broadly
trained linguist who researches the interface of language structure, discourse pragmatics,
emotion in language, gender and society, and Chinese second language acquisition. Her work
transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and she publishes in three languages – English,
Chinese and German. She is Executive Editor of Chinese Language and Discourse and is on
the editorial board of Chinese as a Second Language.
Barbara Meisterernst studied Sinology, Germanic Languages and General Linguistics at
Münster University, where she received her PhD. She holds a habilitation (second PhD) from
Hamburg University. She researched and taught in Paris, Ghent, Berlin and Hamburg. Presently
she teaches Historical Chinese Linguistics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF CHINESE
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Edited by Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
and Barbara Meisterernst
First published 2019
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Names: Huang, Chu-Ren, editor. | Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo, editor. |
Meisterernst, Barbara, editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of Chinese applied linguistics / edited by
Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, and Barbara Meisterernst.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018035705 | ISBN 9781138650732 (hardback : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781315625157 (ebook) | ISBN 9781317231158 (pdf) |
ISBN 9781317231141 (epub) | ISBN 9781317231134 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese language. | Applied linguistics—China.
Classification: LCC PL1071 .R68 2019 | DDC 495.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035705
ISBN: 978-1-138-65073-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62515-7 (ebk)
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CONTENTS
CONTENTSCONTENTS
List of contributors x
Introduction: language in action, language in context 1
Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and
Barbara Meisterernst
PART I
Language, culture and society 7
1 Chinese philosophy, religions and language 9
Friederike Assandri and Barbara Meisterernst
2 Chinese language and Buddhism 28
Jiandao Shi, Jianxun Shi and Jiajuan Xiong
3 Chinese language and Christianity 44
Federico Masini
4 Chinese language and the Silk Roads 61
Barbara Meisterernst
5 Chinese, food and menus 81
Yao Yao and Qi Su
6 Chinese language and fruits 92
Shelley Ching-yu Depner
v
Contents
7 Colour terms in Chinese 105
Huei-ling Lai
8 The function of poetic language and rhymes in pre-modern
Chinese literature 118
Barbara Meisterernst
9 Chinese cultures of learning: elicited metaphor research 131
Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi
10 Learning “Chinese” as a heritage language: challenges, issues
and ways forward 149
Patricia Duff and Liam Doherty
11 Chinese language and gender research 165
Marjorie K.M. Chan and Yuhan Lin
12 Varieties of Chinese: dialects or Sinitic languages? 182
Maria Kurpaska
13 Variations in World Chineses 196
Jingxia Lin, Dingxu Shi, Menghan Jiang and
Chu-Ren Huang
14 Chinese language and new immigrants 212
Chin-Chin Tseng and Chen-Cheng Chun
15 Chinese language and social justice 220
Susan D. Blum
PART II
Language: expression, communication and persuasion 235
16 Chinese language arts: the role of language and linguistic
devices in literary and artistic expressions 237
Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens, Tania Becker,
Regina Llamas, King-fai Tam and Barbara Meisterernst
17 Chinese multimodal resources for dialogue act analysis 256
Alex Chengyu Fang, Yanjiao Li, Jing Cao and Harry Bunt
18 Chinese and counterfactual reasoning 276
Yan Jiang
vi
Contents
19 Linguistic synaesthesia in Chinese 294
Chu-Ren Huang and Jiajuan Xiong
20 Chinese and emotion analysis 313
Sophia Yat Mei Lee
21 Humour in Chinese 332
Lingling Ge and Yuanjian He
22 Irony in Chinese languages: an overview and a case study 345
I-wen Su and Shuping Huang
23 Metaphor in Chinese 364
Kathleen Ahrens and Siaw-Fong Chung
24 Commendatory and derogatory expressions in Chinese 379
Janet Zhiqun Xing
25 Cursing, taboo and euphemism 391
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
26 Chinese for specific purposes: a broader perspective 407
Haidan Wang and Song Jiang
27 Chinese translation in the 21st century 422
Weixiao Wei and Chris Shei
28 The study of Chinese language advertisements 436
Doreen D. Wu and Chaoyuan Li
29 Chinese communication in a globalizing world: an outline
of an emerging contemporary Chinese discourse 444
Shi-xu
PART III
Language, computers and new media 459
30 Computers and Chinese writing systems 461
Qin Lu
31 Digital language resources and NLP tools 483
Chu-Ren Huang and Nianwen Xue
vii
Contents
32 Information quality: linguistic cues and automatic judgements 498
Qi Su
33 Chinese neologisms 514
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Shu-Kai Hsieh
34 Online language resources: advances, applications and challenges 535
Weidong Zhan and Xiaojing Bai
35 The impact of information and communication technology on
Chinese language life 552
Jingwei Zhang and Daming Xu
PART IV
Language, mind and body 565
36 Chinese and aphasia 567
Sam-Po Law and Anthony P.-H. Kong
37 A study of syntactic ability and its relation to theory of mind in
Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder 589
Man Tak Leung and Honglan Li
38 Language and the brain in the sunset years 605
William S-Y. Wang
39 Concept composition during language processing: two case
studies and a model 624
Maria M. Piñango
40 Chinese reading acquisition 645
Chia-Ying Lee
41 Neural mechanisms for the processing of Chinese 659
Wei Zhou, Linjun Zhang, Hua Shu and Ping Li
42 Tone and music processing in Chinese 673
Caicai Zhang
viii
Contents
PART V
The science of language 689
43 Chinese sociolinguistics 691
Daming Xu and Jingwei Zhang
44 Linguistic anthropology of Chinese 709
Chen-chun E
45 Chinese rhetoric 727
Yan Jiang
46 Investigating sign languages in the Chinese context 747
Jia Li, Jia He and Gladys Tang
47 Chinese psycholinguistics: a typological overview 773
Chien-Jer Charles Lin
Index 787
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