SPRING QUARTER 1999 Prof. Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A.

1. Required: The Languages of China. By S. Robert Ramsey. (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1987. Paperback.)
2. Required: The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy. By John DeFrancis. (Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1984. Paperback.)
3. Required: Course Packet is on Reserve in Main Library [hot link removed 6/13/99--mc].
4. Supplementary: Some reference books and select articles from the Journal of Macrolinguistics -- Issue 1 (September 1992), Issue 2 (December 1992), and Issue 5 (May 1994) -- are on Reserve in Main Library [hot link removed 6/13/99--mc].

This is a survey course introducing important elements of the Chinese language -- its structure, dialects, and writing system -- as well as such topics as language acquisition, language planning, and language use in society. This course is taught in English and is designated as one of the Ohio State University's General Education Curriculum (GEC) third-level writing courses. (See OSU's Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW) for information on GEC writing courses).

The course aims to give students an overview of important elements of the Chinese language and its use. Covered also are other topics concerning the Chinese language. As a GEC third-level writing course, Chinese 580 has a three-fold objective with respect to the intellectual growth and development of the students: (1) to improve their skills in expressing themselves with clarity both orally and in writing, (2) to develop their ability to read carefully and critically demanding texts, and to analyze and synthesize the ideas and concepts in them, and (3) to improve their research and library skills through individual research projects.

The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings, individual and small-group assignments in class, and students' presentation of homework assignments and their individual research project. Course work includes students' selection of a research topic, their bibliographic search in the library system for relevant materials, and a term paper (about 8-10 pages, typed and double-spaced) demonstrating ability to analyze critically the selected research topic. Students are expected to make full use of the World Wide Web to search for on-line materials. Students with interest in web-authoring and posting an on-line version of their term paper project will have opportunity to do so.

1. Read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class lectures and discussion.
2. Attend and participate in class discussions.
3. Turn in a term paper (about 8-10 pages, double-spaced). (Obtain approval of term paper topic from the instructor no later than Week 5.) An on-line version (HTML or DOC file, or some other format) may be submitted in addition to, or in lieu of, a hardcopy.

Homework assignments (2)	20%
Class discussions/participation	30%
Research project (all phases)	50%
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	100%

WEEK 1		INTRODUCTION
T	3/30*	Orientation and Introduction
R	4/1	Background	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 1: "A language for all of China" . Ramsey, Ch. 2: "China, North and South" . Ramsey, Ch. 3: "The spread of Northern influence"

WEEK 2		MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: SOUND SYSTEM I
T	3/6*	Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation	In class: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) The Sounds of the IPA (CD-ROM) G. Dillon's Phones & Phonemes of English (click to that section) (Catch up on Week 1's reading and start reading Ramsey, Ch. 4.)
R	3/8	The Standard (Pronunciation)	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 4: "The standard (pronunciation)" (Pp.41-45: Initials and finals) (Explore at your leisure: Harvard U's Chinese Pronunciation Guide) Assignment: Homework 1

WEEK 3		MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: SOUND SYSTEM II
T	4/13*	The Standard (Pronunciation)	Classroom recording and speech analysis Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 4: "The standard (pronunciation)" (Pp.45-47: Tone, stress, and intonation)
R	4/15	Comparison between Pinyin and Wade-Giles	Discussion of: . Ramsey, Appendix B (Pp.297-300) . MC's links to romanization charts Discussion of Homework 1. Turn in Homework 1.

WEEK 4		MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: GRAMMAR I
T	4/20	The Standard (Grammar)	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5, "The standard (grammar)" (Pp.49-65: classification, word-formation)
R	4/22	(cont'd)	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5, "The standard (grammar) (Pp.65-73: Sentences (topics...adjectives)) . (Cont'd: word-formation - Noun/Verb pairs via derivation by tone change (no longer productive) and zero-derivation) (Chan & Tai 1995) Turn in project proposal and select references. (Extension: By Thursday, 29 April 1999.) Assignment: Homework 2

WEEK 5		MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: GRAMMAR II
T	4/27	The Standard (Grammar) cont'd	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5, "The standard (grammar)" (Pp.73-83: Sentences (verbs, incl. tense/aspect, and coverbs))
R	4/29	(cont'd)	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5, "The standard (grammar)" (Pp.83-86: Sentences (s. types & linking)) Intonation of declaratives and echo Q's - ex. with: Tone 1 | Tone 3 Intonation and ma/a S-final particles - ex. with: Tone 1 | Tone 2 | Tone 3 | Tone 4 Discussion of Homework 2. Turn in Homework 2. Note: Last day to turn in project proposal and select references.

WEEK 6		MODERN DIALECTS OF CHINESE
T	5/4*	Classification: Northern & Central dialects	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 6, "Today's dialects" (Pp.87-97)
R	5/6*	The Southern dialects	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 6, "Today's dialects" (Pp.98-115) Students' presentation of their research topic.

WEEK 7		HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE
T	5/11	History of the Chinese Language	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 7, "History" (Pp.116-142)
R	5/13	(cont'd)	Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 7 (cont'd)

WEEK 8		THE CHINESE WRITING SYSTEM
T	5/18	The Chinese Writing System	Discussion of readings: . DeFrancis (1984), Ch.4: "What's in a name?" . DeFrancis (1984), Ch.5: "From pictographs to what?" Turn in first draft of research paper.
R	5/20	(cont'd)	Discussion of readings: . DeFrancis (1984), Ch.7: "How do Chinese characters convey meaning?" . Ramsey, Ch.8: "Chinese writing today"

WEEK 9		LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
T	5/25	Language and Gender	Discussion of readings: . Farris (1988), "Gender and grammar in Chinese" . Chan (1998), "Gender differences in the Chinese language" . MC's language and gender bibliography
R	5/27	Language Change and Society	Discussion of readings: . Hong (1995), "An analysis of language changes in China since the 1980s" . Hong (1997), "Language changes in Chinese: evidence from the service industry"
		Student presentations of research project:   Sharon ("Online Resources and the Chinese Language Student"), Mike

WEEK 10		FINAL WEEK CLASS ACTIVITIES
T	6/1	Student presentations of research project: Laura, Steve, Naoko, In-kyong, Yi Nie, Sehan
R	6/3	Student presentations of research project: Brian, Kazumi, Leah, Bob, Wan, Sid, (Noriaki)

WEEK 11		EXAMINATION WEEK
M	6/7	Due 12:00 noon, MONDAY, 7 June 1999: Revised research paper.   Submit via email as attachment or in my mailbox in DEALL, 204 Cunz Hall.   (Prior permission required from instructor for extension.)

READINGS PACKAGE

(Course Packet on Reserve in Main Library)

1. Farris, Catherine S. 1988. "Gender and grammar in Chinese: with implications for language universals." Modern China 14.3:277-308.

2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1998. "Gender differences in the Chinese language: a preliminary report". Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9), 2 volumes, edited by Hua Lin. Volume 2, pp. 35-52. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, USC. (English with GB-encoded Chinese characters and Chinese Pinyin fonts) [Part of my Publications webpage.]

3. Hong, Wei. 1995. "An analysis of language changes in China since the 1980s." In: Linguistische Berichte 156:143-154.

4. Hong, Wei. 1997. "Language changes in Chinese: evidence from the service industry." In: Linguistische Berichte 167:23-31.

REFERENCES ON RESERVE

1. DeFrancis, John. 1984. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy. Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press.

2. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.

3. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1987. Paperback.

4. Select, short articles from:
   
   1. Journal of Macrolinguistics 1 (September 1992):
      "Language planning in China: Understanding and misunderstanding" (Zhou, Youguang), and "Sets of phrases associated with 'eating', and the cultural information they carry" (Chi, Changhai).

   2. Journal of Macrolinguistics 2 (December 1992):
      "The cultural meaning of Chinese symbolic terms" (Chang, Jingyu), "Name taboos and Chinese culture" (Ruan, Xianzong), "Numerals and cultural psychology" (Wu, Xieyao), and "Meaning beyond words: body language as seen in Chinese idioms" (Yang, Xiaoli).

   3. Journal of Macrolinguistics 5 (May 1994):
      "In and out of favour: attitudes to simplified Chinese characters" (Lavery, Mark), "On translating Jin Yong's martial arts fiction" (Mok, Olivia), "Why 'He Tongjian' changed her name" (Chen, Jianmin), "Euphemism and social psychology" (Meng, Guo), and "Trends in Chinese loan-words" (Cao, Congsun).

REFERENCES

LINKS AND WWW RESOURCES

OSU Libraries' net.TUTOR

OSU Libraries' set of online tutorials, such as developing research skills in using WWW and other Net resources.

OSU Libraries' On-Line Catalog (OSCAR) and other Library Catalogs.

Suggestion: Start by searching under 'SUBJECT' in OSU's OSCAR for Chinese language -- bibliography. Our Main Library has several Chinese linguistics bibliographies (e.g., by Paul Fu-Mien Yang, Alain Lucas, Winston Yang et al., T. W. Kim and A. Wawrzyszko, Maurice Tseng, etc., including those in Chinese) that are useful for term paper topic selection and finding references. Such bibliographies (albeit some more dated than others) also provide valuable information on which journals you might check out for more recent articles relevant for your research topic. One bibliography that got overlooked in the cataloging under "Chinese language -- bibliography" is William S-Y Wang and Anatole Lyovin's 1970, database-generated CLIBOC: Chinese Linguistics Bibliography On Computer. (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press). Besides conducting online searches for sources, do take time to browse through the stacks in sections of the library with books and journals on Chinese language and linguistics. Needless to say, references in recent publications are useful for additional sources.

English-Language References for Chinese 580 Term Papers

Part of the References section above -- sources will be added from time to time during the quarter based on student needs. (I may make that References section into an independent webpage later.)

MC's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography (includes some articles that are web-accessible)

MLA International Bibliography (part of OhioLINK's online Research Databases)

Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).

Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) [WWW (OSU Columbus Only)]

CSTW: Resources for Students and CSTW Resources for Writing. Online resources, "handouts", and links at OSU's Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing.

Student Resources for Compositions and Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement.

Useful resources from Dartmouth College's Composition Center
How to cite a webpage -- example:
Marjorie Chan's Chinese 580: The Chinese Language: Description and Analysis <http://deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/c580.htm> [Accessed 29 March 1999].

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (ChianLinks.osu.edu -- Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents)

1. ChinaLinks1: General Resources for Chinese Studies: search engines, publishers, Asian studies associations and journals (with indices), etc.
2. ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs: downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, RealPlayer, etc.
3. ChinaLinks3: Chinese Language and Linguistics: Chinese dialectology (including links to websites with Chinese dialect sound files), Chinese linguistics associations and journals (with tables of content/indices), conferences, etc.
4. ChinaLinks4: General Linguistics and Internet Resources: general references (including link to the searchable, on-line Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries and references), linguistics associations and journals (with table of contents and/or indices), other internet resources, linguistic software and tutorials (including Stirling University's Online Phonology Course (on the sounds of the phonology of British English (Received Pronunciation)), and G. Dillon's Resources for Studying Human Speech), web-authoring tools, etc.

MC's Courses and Sample Syllabi

Contains readings and references that may provide a handy source to look for research topics.

EALL 683: Scripts of East Asia: taught by our Dept. chair, Prof. James Unger. (Includes references to psycholinguistic studies.)

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