Abstract: Language and Setting: Geography, History, Society, Group identity, Two Chinas, Chinese: The language, Language relations and types Language and Politics: The differences between spoken and written Chinese, The cry for change: From politics to language, Language reform and the new culture movement, Language reform and anti-tradition, Romanisation: Abolition of the Chinese script?, Popularisation of phonetic spelling, The politicalisation of language: Names and terms, Concluding remarks Sounds and Tones: Speaking a language: Pinyin: The spelling of Chinese sounds, Syllables, Phonetic symbols in Taiwan, Other Romanisation systems, Tones, Sounds of loan words, Syllables, words and tones, Stress, Rhythm Writing: Hanzi (characters), Radicals, Types of characters, Writing styles and calligraphy, Vertical and horizontal writing and punctuation, Complex and simplified characters, Characters in other countries Vocabulary: Words, Word classes, Word formation, Compound words, Loan words, Reduplication, Affixes, cheng yu (set phrases), Homophones, Informal, formal and classic vocabulary, Meaning, reference and translation, Names, Writing addresses and dates, Dictionaries Grammar: Structural rules, Three major features of grammar, Word order, Phrases, Question sentences, Word order of passive sentences, Inflection, Grammatical words, Measure words, Auxillaries, Complements, A summary of the three des, Quantifiers, Sentences Discourse: Classroom versus real situation Chinese, Regional accents and dialects, Gender, Formal versus informal style, Written versus spoken, Ellipsis and pronoun dropping, Conversational fillers, Phraseology, Word order, Writing: Characters Appendix I, Appendix II Bibliography Index
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-12-28
Language: en
Type: book
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