WINTER QUARTER 2002 CHINESE 580 The Chinese Language: Description and Analysis Professor 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 -- available for students to make individual copies.

Main Library Reserve: Some supplementary resources will be placed on three-day loans at Main Library - check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 580. (C580 reserved materials are listed online for the current quarter only.)

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. Taught in English, this course is designated as 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 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. A mailing list for the class will also be used for dissemination of information and student-initiated discussions concerning topics brought up in class. 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 also encouraged to make use of the World Wide Web to search for online materials, but don't rely solely on internet research!

1. Read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class lectures and discussion.
2. Attend class regularly (heed the wisdom of the Mother of Mencius).
3. Participate actively in class discussions and individual/group activities.
4. Turn in two homework assignments.
5. Present an oral version of the term paper project in the last week of class.
   (Prepare hardcopy handouts or transparencies, or prepare a digital file in PPT format (for a PowerPoint presentation), or in some other digital file format (DOC, PDF, NJX, etc.).)
6. Turn in a term paper (about 8-10 pages, double-spaced).
   Obtain approval of term paper topic from the instructor no later than Week 4. Submit a web-accessible version (HTML, RTF, NJX, PDF, or some other format) and a hardcopy. All homework assignments and term papers will be placed online in RTF or PDF format, and will be internally-linked for class use.

   Code of Student Conduct: Academic Misconduct
   Please also note that students need to adhere to The Ohio State University's Code of Student Conduct, with particular reference here to "Academic misconduct," defined as "[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process." (See section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct.) Relevant examples of academic misconduct include (but not limited to) the following:

   • Submitting plagiarized work for an academic requirement.
     Plagiarism is the representation of another's work or ideas as one's own; it includes the unacknowledged word-for-word use and/or paraphrasing of another person's work, and/or the inappropriate unacknowledged use of another person's ideas.

   • Submitting substantially the same work to satisfy requirements for one course that has been submitted in satisfaction of requirements for another course, without permission of the instructor of the course for which the work is being submitted.

   Disability Services
   Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue (Tel: 292.3307. TDD: 292.0901).

Course Marks: Evaluation and grade assignment are in accordance with University Faculty Rule 3335-7-21.

Homework assignments (2)	20%
Class discussions/participation (including attendance)	40%
Research project (all phases)	40%
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	100%

WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION
01/07	Preliminaries Introduction and orientation, class mailing list, etc. OSU Libraries' online catalogue and other internet resources (Note: Discussion of reading selections begins on January 14, but do read ahead if you have purchased your textbooks.)	01/09	Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation In class: Figures and IPA charts (course packet) International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) International Phonetic Association and downloadable audio files (wav files) accompanying the languages illustrated in the Handbook of the IPA. The Sounds of the IPA (CD-ROM) U. of Victoria's Phonetic Database (CD ROM) Speech Internet Dictionary (SID) (online searchable dictionary with illustrations and audio files; use the "Page" pull-down menu to select terms beginning with 'A', 'B', 'C', etc.) Phonetics Resources: Phones & Phonemes of English Online Phonetics Course: IPA, Consonants, Vowels Explore the links above and read ahead.

WEEK 2: BACKGROUND
01/14	Establishment and Promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese Discussion of readings . Ramsey, Ch. 1: "A language for all of China" . Ramsey, Ch. 2: "China, North and South"	01/16	Spread of Northern Influence Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 3: "The spread of Northern influence" Assignment: Homework 1

WEEK 3: BACKGROUND AND MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: SOUND SYSTEM I
01/21	Martin Luther King Day - no classes Promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese Home reading assignment: . Chen, Ch. 2: "Establishment and Promotion of Modern Spoken Chinese"     (to be discussed on Wed., 1/23/02)	01/23	The Standard (Pronunciation) Lecture & discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 4: "The standard (pronunciation)" . Li & Thompson, Ch. 1: "Introduction" (Explore at your leisure: Helena Riha and Brian Bare's project, Producing Mandarin Chinese Sounds: A Visual Representation, and Harvard U's Chinese Pronunciation Guide) Discussion of Homework 1. Turn in Homework 1. (Begin to explore possible topics for your term paper project if you have not yet done so.)

WEEK 4: MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: SOUND SYSTEM II
01/28	Pinyin Romanization & Other Systems (Wade-Giles, Yale, IPA) Lecture & discussion: . Table of the Speech Sounds of Peking Dialect (Ramsey, p.48; course packet) . Comparative Transcription Table: ZYFH, GR, WG, Yale, IPA, PY (course packet) . Ramsey, Appendix B (Pp.297-300) . MC's Links to Romanization charts	01/30	In-Class Recording & Speech Analysis . Recording and analysis using commercial software and freeware . MC's Links to Commercial products & freeware/shareware for speech analysis Comparison of utterances: . Chinese 580 (Au00): Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 . Chinese 680 (Au00): Set 4 | Set 5

WEEK 5: MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: GRAMMAR I
02/04	The Standard (Grammar) Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5: "The standard (grammar)" (Pp.49-65: classification, word-formation) . (Word-formation - Noun/Verb pairs via derivation by tone change (no longer productive) and zero-derivation) Chan & Tai 1995)) Turn in a one-page, double-spaced abstract of term paper topic and select references.	02/06	(con'td) Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5: "The standard (grammar)" (Pp.66-73: Sentences (topics...adjectives)) Assignment: Homework 2

WEEK 6: MODERN STANDARD CHINESE: GRAMMAR II
02/11	The Standard (Grammar) cont'd Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 5: "The standard (grammar)" (Pp.73-86: Sentences (verbs, incl. tense/aspect, coverbs, and linking)) Optional Reading: . Fong (2000) - re Chinese New Year Guest Speaker: . Helena Riha (DEALL grad student) "Beijing Broadcasting Institute and the mastery of Putonghua" 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	02/13	Language and Gender Discussion of readings: . Chan (1998): "Gender differences in the Chinese language" . Gender-related vocab in: DeFrancis' ABC Dictionary (in Wenlin 3.0) and Hanyu DaCidian (CD ROM) . Gender Dif's in Education & Training in E. Asia (table) . MC's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography Discussion of Homework 2. Turn in Homework 2.
February 12: Happy Chinese New Year! (Year of the Horse) February 14: Happy Valentine's Day!

WEEK 7: CHINESE DIALECTS & HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE
02/18	Classification of Chinese Dialects Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 6: "Today's dialects" . MC's Links to Chinese dialectology resources	02/20	History of the Chinese Language Lecture & discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch. 7: "History" . Charts & tables from Chinese 681*:   . Chronology   . Periodization of Chinese Phonology   . Periodization - Sources (Big5)   . Yunjing: 36 Initials (* Click 'BACK' to return to this page.)

WEEK 8: THE WRITING SYSTEM & LANGUAGE REFORM
02/25	The Chinese Writing System Lecture & discussion of readings: . DeFrancis (1984), Ch.4: "What's in a name?" . DeFrancis (1984), Ch.5: "From pictographs to what?" . DeFrancis (1984), Ch.7: "How do Chinese characters convey meaning?" . Do You Know Your Name?! (foibles of reading handwritten characters) Turn in first draft of term paper by 02/25/02 at the latest.	02/27	Language Reform Discussion of readings: . Ramsey, Ch.8: "Chinese writing today" . Chen, Ch. 11: "Use and reform of the Chinese writing system: present and future" . PRC's 2000 language and script law (10-31-00) (GB)     (Alt URL 1 | Alt URL 2) . What is Putonghua, what are standard Chinese characters (GB) . Let's not sully our beautiful city -- Onto the streets to 'catch' incorrect Chinese characters! (01-17-2002) (GB)

WEEK 9: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
03/04	The Art of Gift-Offering and Gift-Acceptance Discussion of readings: . Zhu et al. (2000): "The sequential organisation of gift-offering and acceptance in Chinese."	03/06	Language and Ethnic Identity Discussion of readings: . Luo & Wiseman (2000): "Ethnic language maintenance among Chinese immigrant children in the United States."

WEEK 10: FINAL WEEK ACTIVITIES
03/11	Student presentations	03/13	Student presentations

WEEK 11: EXAMINATION WEEK
Due 5:00 p.m., MONDAY, 18 March 2002: Revised research paper.   Submit (1) a hardcopy in my mailbox in DEALL, 204 Cunz Hall, and (2) a digital copy via email attachment or on a floppy disk.   (Request for extension must be made by Week 10.)

COURSE PACKET

Readings may be subject to change after the course begins. An asterisk (*) marks web e-journal articles available at OSU OSCAR Web E-Journals (OSU users only).

1. Charts, figures, tables.

2. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. (Excerpts: Chapter 2 (pp. 7-33) and Chapter 11 (pp. 191-201).)

3. 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, University of Southern California. [PDF file (2.2 MB)]

4. * Fong, Mary. 2000. "'Luck talk' in celebrating the Chinese New Year." Journal of Pragmatics 32:219-237.

5. Li, Charles, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: U. of California Press. (Excerpt: Chapter 1 (pp. 1-9).)

6. * Luo, Shiow-Huey and Richard L. Wiseman. 2000. "Ethnic language maintenance among Chinese immigrant children in the United States." International Journal of Intercultural Relations 24:307-324.

7. * Zhu, Hua, Wei Li, and Yuan Qian. 2000. "The sequential organisation of gift-offering and acceptance in Chinese." Journal of Pragmatics 32:81-103.

REFERENCES ON RESERVE

    The following references will be placed on Reserve as needed.

1. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.

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

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

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

LINKS AND WWW RESOURCES

1. Online Resources for Compositions, Citations, and Documenting of Electronic Sources
   • OSU's Online Resources at Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW).
     Excellent resources, "handouts", links to tutorials, etc., to help students with research and 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 12 December 2001].

   • On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources
     Links and other resources from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.

2. Library and Library-Related 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.

     Dictionaries are also useful resources as corpora for research. Our Main Library's collection includes specialized Chinese dictionaries of all kinds, such as dictionaries on classifers, verbs, or adjectives (or stative verbs), reverse dictionaries (hint: search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- reverse indexes for dictionaries organized based on the second morpheme in a compound; e.g., Hanyu Daopai Cidian (Han yu tao p'ai tz'u tien, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1420 .H2985 1987), Han-Ying Niyin Cidian (Han Ying ni yin tz'u tien [A Reverse Chinese-English dictionary], MAIN Stacks: PL1455 .H335 1985), Daoxu Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (Tao hsu hsien tai Han yu tz'u tien, MAIN Stacks: PL1498 .T36 1987), and the reverse Chinese dictionary of verbal compounds, Dongci Nixu Cidian (Tung tz'u ni hsu tz'u tien, MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1235 .C46 1986), synonym (tongyi 'same meaning') dictionaries, antonym (fanyi 'opposite meaning') dictionaries, dialect (and bi-dialect) dictionaries and vocabulary compilations, loanword dictionaries, word frequency lists, etc. There are also such publications as Eugene and Nora Ching's (1977) 201 Chinese Verbs: Compounds and Phrases for Everyday Usage [MAIN/EAS Reading Room: PL1235]. There are also word lists, glossaries, and dictionaries in digital form that is web-accessible, and some of them are searchable online, as given in my Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries for Chinese (and Japanese). Other online resources include Chinese character frequency lists that are part of Jun Da's Chinese Text Computing Project website (updated URL, 11-09-00).

   • 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)]

3. Other Resources and Links:
   • MC's Online Bibliography for Chinese 580
     This online bibliography emerged out of Spring Quarter 1999's offering of Chinese 580. It contains numerous English-language references for term paper topics and research.

   • MC: Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries
     Links to Chinese (and Japanese) word lists, downloadable and online glossaries and dictionaries.

   • MC's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography
     Fairly extensive bibliography plus links to other online resources; includes some articles that are web-accessible.

   • Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks (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.
     This course is taught by our Dept. chair, Prof. James Marshall Unger. The online course syllabus includes references to psycholinguistic studies.

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