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This UTF8-encoded online bibliography contains English-language sources to assist students to get started thinking about their term paper project for Chinese 580. The Chinese Language: Description and Analysis, one of The Ohio State University's General Education Curriculum (GEC) third-level writing courses, under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing. The bibliography is based on readings and references originally included as part of the online syllabus for Chinese 580 (Spring Quarter 1999).The references are divided into two major parts: Part A contains English-language references for Chinese 580 term papers, and Part B contains supplementary references such as Chinese grammars and general linguistics textbooks. More references have been added since in offering Chinese 580. Online resources are available there under Some Web Resources.
Some references are given below to help you get started if you are working on one of the topics included here thus far:
(1) Language contact, language planning/reform, and language use (2) Bilingualism and multilingualism (3) Languge use in society: sociolinguistic and pragmatic issues (4) Taboos, lucky words, and euphemisms (5) Personal naming (6) Chinese writing system (7) Psycholinguistic studies and the Chinese language (8) Select articles from some issues of the Journal of Macrolinguistics
(on Reserve in Main Library in the quarter that Chinese 580 is offered) In addition to the above topics, I have a separate webpage on language and gender: MC's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography, which includes some articles that are web-accessible. Remember, also, that dictionaries of various kinds may also be helpful as databases for your research (e.g., dictionaries on classifers, verbs, or adjectives (yes -- on just one grammatical category!), reverse dictionaries (organized based on the second morpheme in a compound or polymorphemic word containing a suffix), synonym dictionaries, antonym dictionaries, dialect dictionaries and vocabulary compilations, loanword dictionaries, word frequency lists, etc., etc.!) You should also check the section of the Chinese 580 course syllabus under Links and WWW Resources for further sources.
(NB: Also check out studies on attitudes toward language/dialect use in Section 1 above on "Language Contact, Language Planning/Reform, and Language Use.")
(NB: Also check out references in my Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography.)
(NB: Also check out references in my links below for my online gender bibliography and other online course syllabi.)
(NB: Also check out the readings in my online course syllabus, Chinese 683: Study of the Chinese Writing System. In addition, check out the bibliography in the course, EALL 683: Scripts of East Asia, offered by our DEALL faculty member, Prof. James Unger.)

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