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Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world, and has a rich social, cultural and...

Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)...

Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book Prize This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines...

By the co-author of?Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world....

Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan brings new perspectives to—and invites comparative study within—the general study of language choice...

Metaphor and Intercultural Communication examines in detail the dynamics of metaphor in interlingual contact, translation and globalization processes. Its ca......

This monograph describes and analyzes the syntax of classifiers and cultural taxonomy in more than 20 major languages in southern...

This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora...

The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century in a way...

This ground-breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides...

The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have...

The complete introduction to Chinese language that covers its writing symbols, pronunciation, and unique language characteristics with emphases of the...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Author: Pan, Haihua Publisher: Routledge Illustration: n Language:......

Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education deals with the current issues and challenges faced by teachers and learners of...

This comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cult......