Sinica venetiana

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.

Keywords Tang prose • Cognitive linguistics • Sign languages • Media • Linguistic inference • Advertising • Etymology • Medical anthropology • Chinese colour terms • Chinese semantics • Cultural studies • Translation studies • Chinese literature • Mandarin Chinese • Late Qing science fiction • Consecutive interpreting • Lexical innovation • Word order • Chinese language • Fictional plausibility • Mainland China and Taiwan • Cinema and other media • Linguistic variation • Linguistic innovation

Thema codes CF • JBCC • 2GDC • 1FPC

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-040-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-040-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-042-6 | Published Nov. 1, 2015 | Language it