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