The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language

<p>The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language will truly meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of those who are interested in the Chinese language in different capacities and for different reasons, such as Sinologists, Chinese linguists, and teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. </p><p>The <i>Encyclopedia</i> includes research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by 66 eminent academics in the field; from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference will be the most up to date and authoritative on the market; it will offer an a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests.</p><p>The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference<i> </i>includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. </p><p>The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.</p> <p>List of Consultant Editors List of Contributors The Chinese Language: The Global, Historical, Lexicographical, and Linguistic Aspects – In Lieu of a Preface <i>Chan Sin-wai </i>Acknowledgement 1. Ancient Chinese <i>Alain Peyraubce </i>2. Cantonese <i>Cheng Siu-Pong and Tang Sze-Wing </i>3. Cantonese Romanization <i>Cheng Siu-Pong and Tang Sze-Wing </i>4. Chinese Characters <i>John Yin Jinghua </i>5. Chinese Idioms <i>Jiao Liwei</i><i> </i>6. Chinese Language and National Identity <i>Andrew Simpson </i>7. Chinese Language Education: Teacher Training <i>Jane Orton </i>8. Chinese Language in a Global Context <i>Tao Hongyin</i> and <i>Liu Jin </i>9. Chinese Language Pedagogy <i>Wu Weiping </i>10. Chinese Linguistics <i>William S.Y. Wang </i>11. Chinese Linguistics: Pragmatics <i>Yan Jiang </i>12. Chinese Linguistics: Semantics <em>Hsieh Shu-Kai </em>13. Chinese Morphology <i>Jerome L. Packard </i>14. Chinese Neologisms: Word-formation Strategies in Chinese <i>Antonella Ceccagno</i>15. Chinese: Parts of Speech <em>Candice Chi-Hang Cheung </em>16. Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings <i>Larry Herzberg </i>17. Chinese Psycholinguistics <i>Jerome L. Packard </i>18. Chinese Rhetoric <i>Andy Kirkpatrick </i>19. Chinese Slang <i>Robert L. Moore </i>20. Chinese Syntax <i>Walter Bisang </i>21. Chinese Taboo <i>Amy He Yun </i>22. Chinese 'Xiehouyu' <em>Grace Chang </em>23. Classical Chinese <i>Chris Wen-chao Li </i>24. Computational Linguistics <i>Xiaoheng Zhang </i>25. Corpus-based Study of Chinese <i>Tony McEnery and Richard Xiao </i>26. Elastic Words in Chinese <em>San Duanmu </em>27. Hakka Dialect <i>Lau Chun Fat </i>28. Hanyu Pinyin <i>Lilly Lee Chen </i>29. Hong Kong Sign Language <i>Gladys Tang </i>30. Lexicography <i>Cheung Kam-Siu </i>31. Lexicography in the Contemporary Period <i>Huang Chu-Ren, Li Lan, and Su Xinchun </i>32. Loanwords <i>Miao Ruiqin </i>33. Mandarin <i>Shi Dingxu </i>34. Mandarin and Other Sinitic Languages <i>Hilary Chappell and Li Lan</i><i> </i>35. Metaphor in Chinese: Cognition, Culture and Society <em>Zhuo Jing-Schmidt </em>36. Modern Chinese: Written Chinese <i>Feng Shengli </i>37. Poetic Prosody <i>Feng Shengli </i>38. Psycholinguistics: Reading Chinese <i>Liang Tao and Alice F. Healy</i><i> </i>39. Semantic Change in Chinese <i>Janet Zhiqun Xing </i>40. Standard Chinese <i>Shi Dingxu </i>41. Syntax <i>Li Yafei </i>42. Wade-Giles Romanization System <i>Karen Steffen Chung</i></p>