The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics) - Softcover

Jiang, Song

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367598124 ISBN 13: 9780367598129

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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 Mānoa.

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Song Jiang is assistant professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367598124
• ISBN 13: 9780367598129
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216