The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity
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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

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The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition.

Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai'i at M?noa.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780367598129
eBook ISBN
9781351967303
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Abbreviations
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Descriptive studies of Chinese classifiers: From traditional grammar to cognitive grammar
  10. 3 Linguistic relativity and empirical studies
  11. 4 The etymological origins, embodied bases, and semantic extensions of Chinese classifiers
  12. 5 The semantic structures of classifier categories: A case study of body part-based classifiers
  13. 6 Cognitive effects of Chinese classifiers
  14. 7 Cognitive linguistics and teaching Chinese classifiers as a second language
  15. 8 Conclusion
  16. References
  17. Appendix A: Consent form
  18. Appendix B: List of stimulus sets
  19. Appendix C: Experiment instructions
  20. Index