CLTA newsletter May 2019

CLTA NEWSLETTER
Current Studies
Nin EChinese W B OLanguage O K I Nand F ODiscourse
R M AT I O N
Discourse studies / Pragmatics / Sino-Tibetan languages
Cu rren t St u d ies in Ch in ese Lan gu age an d
Discou rse
Global context and diverse perspectives
Bryan t U n iversit y / Th e U n iversit y of Syd n ey
Th is volu m e feat u res a d iscou rse em p irical orien t at ion from d iverse p ersp ect ives an d
variou s m et h od ologies, in w h ich n arrat ives, in t erview s, su rveys, an d large -scale d at ab ases
or self-creat ed w rit t en an d sp ok en corp ora are em p loyed an d an alyz ed t o gain a b et t er
u n d erst an d in g of n ew d evelop m en t s an d ch an ges in Ch in ese lan gu age an d d iscou rse.
Au t h ors em p loy u p d at ed ap p roac h es from a variet y of fi eld s, in clu d in g ap p lied lin gu ist ics ,
fu n ct ion al lin gu ist ics , corp u s lin gu ist ics an d sociolin gu ist ics , t o d escrib e t h e st ru ct u re
of Ch in ese lan gu age an d d iscou rse an d t o ex am in e it s crit ical issu es , m an y focu sin g on
glob aliz at ion -in d u ced lan gu age d evelop m en t s an d c h an ges. Wit h an em p irically-b ased
d iscou rse/socio -cu lt u ral ap p roach, t h is collect ion m ak es v alu ab le con t rib u t ion s t o researc h
on Ch in ese lan gu age an d d iscou rse an d serves as a sou n d referen ce for Ch in ese researc h ers
an d ed u cat ors in d iverse fi eld s su c h as Ch in ese lan gu age an d d iscou rse, Ch in ese lin gu ist ics
an d lan gu age ed u cat ion , Ch in ese m u lt icu lt u ralism , an d m ore.
Table of contents
Contributors
Chapter 1. Chinese discourse from diverse
perspectives: An introduction
Yun Xiao and Linda Tsung
Chapter 2. New words in contemporary
Chinese language use: Linguistic
features and formation processes
Yun Xiao
Chapter 3. Usage based language change and exemplar
representations in Beijing Mandarin Chinese
Liang Tao
Chapter 4. Contextual variations of internal
and external modifications in Chinese
requests: c Effets of power and imposition
Shuai Li
Chapter 5. Some interactional functions of Yinweiclauses
in Mandarin Chinese conversation
Xiaoting Li and Jie Luo
Chapter 6. Preliminaries to delicate matters:
Some functions of “I say to you” sequences
in Mandarin Chinese conversations
Ni-Eng Lim
Chapter 7. Chinese near-synonyms jian
( 建 ), zao ( 造 ), gai ( 蓋 ) ‘to build’ revisited
Chenhsuan Huang
Chapter 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors
of Chinese near-synonyms: A corpus-based analysis
Jia Yang
Chapter 9. Genericity and sentences with an
AP state complement in Mandarin Chinese
Fei Ren
Chapter 10. Kinship metaphors in the
Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu:
Biology and culture as conceptual basis
Lin Zhu
Chapter 11. a The classifict ion of
Chinese time expressions from Systemic
Functional Linguistics Perspectives
Linda Tsung and Lubei Zhang
Chapter 12. Being a Kam in China:
Ethnic identity in narratives
Wei Wang, Lisong Jiang and Meishu He
Chapter 13. Specialised corpora for Chinese
language education in Singapore
Hock Huan Goh, Jinzhan Lin and Chunsheng Zhao
Index
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