The Chinese Language: Variations on a Theme
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abstract
Its is presented here a collection of ten essays, on linguistic topics in the broadest sense, which aim to illustrate peculiarities and connotations of the Chinese language in different fields and modes of use. Scritti da sinologi il cui campo di specializzazione spazia dalla linguistica alla critica letteraria, dai cultural studies ai processi comunicativi, i contributi intendono mettere a fuoco alcuni importanti aspetti del variegato declinarsi degli usi linguistici nella cultura cinese. The work has been subdivided into four sections - Language and Linguistics, Language and Literature, Language and Media, Language and Socio-cultural Patterns, each collecting essays referring to a common field of research, so as to contribute to compose, from different perspectives, the complex mosaic of knowledge indispensable for understanding China and its civilisation.
Linguistic innovation • Chinese language • Sign languages • Mainland China and Taiwan • Cognitive linguistics • Translation studies • Consecutive interpreting • Chinese literature • Tang prose • Cultural studies • Media • Linguistic inference • Medical anthropology • Advertising • Chinese semantics • Cinema and other media • Chinese colour terms • Fictional plausibility • Lexical innovation • Mandarin Chinese • Late Qing science fiction • Linguistic variation • Etymology • Word order