Is English an Asian Language?
Is English an Asian Language?

Author: Andy Kirkpatrick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1107134684

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A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.

Language Change in East Asia
Language Change in East Asia

Author: T. E. McAuley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1136844686

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This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

The Allure of the Ancient
The Allure of the Ancient

Author: Margaret Geoga

Publisher: Intersections

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9789004129320

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"The Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together scholars of the ancient and early modern worlds, the volume approaches reception history from an interdisciplinary perspective, asking how early modern artists and scholars interpreted ancient Middle Eastern civilizations-such as Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia-and how their interpretations were shaped by early modern contexts and concerns. The volume's chapters cross disciplinary boundaries in their explorations of art, philosophy, science, and literature, as well as geographical boundaries, spanning from Europe to the Caribbean to Latin America"--