The Formation of Modern Chinese Lexicon and Its Evolution Toward a National Language
Author: Federico Masini
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 316
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Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China
Author: George Kam Wah Mak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9004316302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents the first monograph-length study of the relationship between Protestant Bible translation and the development of Mandarin from a lingua franca into the national language of China. Drawing on both published and unpublished sources, this book looks into the translation, publication, circulation and use of the Mandarin Bible in late Qing and Republican China, and sets out how the Mandarin Bible contributed to the standardization and enrichment of Mandarin. It also illustrates that the Mandarin Union Version, published in 1919, was involved in promoting Mandarin as not only the standard medium of communication but also a marker of national identity among the Chinese people, thus playing a role in the nation-building of modern China.
The Politics of Language in Chinese Education
Author: Elisabeth Kaske
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9004163670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViewing education as the central battleground over the status of language, this book investigates the language policies of various social agents in early 20th century China and offers a comprehensive and fascinating analysis of the emergence of China's national language.
The Emergence of the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-02-04
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9004290524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has long been known that the modern Chinese language inherited numerous terms from Japanese and that Japanese coined many of those terms in the last decades of the 19th century. These seven essays address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms came into being, how they outdistanced competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process. Rather than relying on received tropes of translation heritage, these essays delve much deeper into the particularities of their cases. They set a standard for subsequent scholarship.
International Law as a World Order in Late Imperial China
Author: Rune Svarverud
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9004160191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe topic of this book is the early introduction and reception of international law in China. International law is studied as part of the introduction of the Western sciences and as a theoretical orientation in international affairs 1847-1911.
The Discovery of Chinese Logic
Author: Joachim Kurtz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9047426843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil 1898, Chinese and foreign scholars agreed that China had never known, needed, or desired a field of study similar in scope and purpose to European logic. Less than a decade later, Chinese literati claimed that the discipline had been part of the empire’s learned heritage for more than two millennia. This book analyzes the conceptual, ideological, and institutional transformations that made this drastic change of opinion possible and acceptable. Reconstructing the discovery of Chinese logic as a paradigmatic case of the epistemic shifts that continue to shape interpretations of China’s intellectual history, it offers a fresh view of the formation of modern academic discourses in East Asia and adds a neglected chapter to the global histories of science and philosophy.
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1380
ISBN-13: 9780231109840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBegins with the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature and moves successively through verse, prose, fiction, drama, and commentary and criticism; it then closes with popular and peripheral manifestations. A special feature is the focus on such contextual subjects as the history of popular culture, the effect of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.
Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere
Author: Jacqueline Visconti
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-24
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1614514666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores communication and its implications on interpretation, vagueness, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. It investigates cross-cultural perspectives with original methods, models, and arguments emphasizing national, EU, and international perspectives. Both traditional fields of investigations along with an emerging new field (Legal Visual Studies) are discussed. Communication addresses the necessity of an ongoing interaction between jurilinguists and legal professionals. This interaction requires persuasive, convincing, and acceptable reasons in justifying transparency, visual analyses, and dialogue with the relevant audience. The book is divided into five complementary sections: Professional Legal Communication; Legal Language in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context; Legal Communication in the Courtroom; Laws on Language and Language Rights; and Visualizing Legal Communication. The book shows the diversity in the understanding and practicing of legal communication and paves the way to an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural operation in our common understanding of legal communication. This book is suitable for advanced students in Linguistics and Law, and for academics and researchers working in the field of Language and Law and jurilinguists.
Chinese History
Author: Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1220
ISBN-13: 9780674002494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEndymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.
Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2000 / Bibliographie Linguistique de l'Année 2000
Author: Sijmen Tol
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2004-12-10
Total Pages: 1674
ISBN-13: 9781402030086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics.
