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Chinese 680       

AUTUMN QUARTER 2009

CHINESE 680

Introduction to Chinese Linguistics

Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan
Dept. of East Asian Langs. & Lits.
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
U.S.A.
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COURSE: Chinese 680. Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
Call No. & Credit Hours:   6726   5 credits.   U G
Prerequisites:   Chinese 103 or equivalent, or permission of instructor (2+ years of Chinese recommended)
Course page:   http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c680.htm
TIME & PLACE: T R     01:30 - 3:18 p.m.
359 Hagerty Hall (1775 College Road)
(multimedia classroom with computer and internet connection)
OFFICE HOURS: T   3:30 - 5:00 p.m. (from Week 2), or by appointment
Office:   362 Hagerty Hall   (1775 College Road)
Tel:        292.3619   (292.5816 for messages, 292.3225 for faxes)
E-mail:   chan.9 @osu.edu   (close the gap)
MC's Home Page:
MC's ChinaLinks:   
people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9
ChinaLinks.osu.edu
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TEXTBOOKS

  1. Jerry Norman. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. [ISBN: 0-521-29653-6 (pbk)] Required. Available from SBX (1806 N. High Street, (Tel) 291.9528).
    (Note that this textbook is also required in Chinese 681. History of the Chinese Language.)
  2. Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: U. of California Press. [ISBN: 0-520-04286-7 (pbk)] Required. Available from SBX.
  3. Additional Readings:
    Additional readings are typically e-journal articles that can be retrieved from OSU Libraries' online catalog. First, go to Ohio State University Libraries <library.osu.edu>, and under Quicklinks, select “Online Journals List” and find the relevant e-journal title. Alternatively, go to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to locate the e-journal. (Note that one can also click “Search” at the EJC catalog website to locate a specific e-journal article via author name, article title, etc.) Other readings, scanned to PDF format by Electronic Reserves, will be available for downloading from Carmen.osu.edu under the current course. Additional readings will be made available during the course.
Thompson (Main) Library Reserve and Electronic Reserves:
Some reference books are placed in Closed Reserve at Thompson (Main) Library (loan periods may vary), among them being the two textbooks (2-hour loans). (Note: Reserved materials in Closed Reserve are for the specified quarter only.)
Check Ohio State University Libraries <library.osu.edu> for an online list of books and readings placed on Reserve and on E-Reserves for Chinese 680. Under Quicklinks, select either “Print Reserves by Course” or “Print Reserves by Professor” for books, or “eReserves in Carmen” for readings in PDF format.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course investigates the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and writing system of the Chinese language. Also covered briefly are some topics relating language to cognition, culture, and society.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES & EXPECTED OUTCOMES

This course is designed to familiarize graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students in Chinese language and literature, with some basic knowledge of the structure of Mandarin (modern standard) Chinese. The course investigates the phonology and grammar of the language from a functional — as well as cognitive — perspective. A few readings have also been included for more detailed study of select topics. In addition, the course examines the Chinese writing system, and introduces some sociolinguistic and cognitive linguistic issues for discussion. This course serves to prepare students for more advanced courses in Chinese linguistics, from theoretical as well as pedagogical perspectives. Students are expected at the end of the course to have gained a basic knowledge of the linguistic structure of the Chinese as well as some information on such topics as the Chinese writing system. The student should be able to use that foundation to proceed to advanced graduate courses and graduate seminars in Chinese linguistics. A student with a strong Chinese language background should also be able to apply knowledge gained in the course to conduct more advance research on linguistic issues.
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COURSE CONTENT

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.
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STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Read and reflect on all assigned readings prior to class lectures and discussion.
  2. Attend class regularly, and participate actively in class discussions and individual/group activities.
  3. Submit three homework assignments (each about 4 pages (about 3 pages for undergraduate students), double-spaced, not including references).[1]
  4. For the term paper project:
  5. All course assignments in digital format are to be uploaded to your Dropbox in Carmen.osu.edu under Chinese 680.
[1] These may be a combination of short reactions papers and corpus-based written responses to specific questions from the instructor based on the readings. The assignments should be submitted in hardcopy format in class on the due date, in addition to submission of a digital copy (DOC (MS Word), RTF, PDF, or HTML format) in Carmen.osu.edu.

[2] Prepare a digital file in PowerPoint format for submission in Carmen.osu.edu and for use in the class presentation. (Be sure to bring a backup copy of the file with you to class.)

[3] Submit the term paper in hardcopy format and in digital format. (If some other digital format is used, be sure to discuss it with the instructor first.)

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)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY (ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT)

Academic integrity is essential to maintaining an environment that fosters excellence in teaching, research, and other educational and scholarly activities. Failure to follow the rules and guidelines established in OSU's Code of Student Conduct (revised 7 December 2007) may constitute “Academic Misconduct.” OSU's Code of Student Conduct (section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct) defines as academic misconduct “[a]ny activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process.” Examples of academic misconduct include (but are not limited to) plagiarism, collusion (unauthorized collaboration), copying the work of another student, possession of unauthorized materials during an examination, and submission of the same work for credit in two (or more) courses. Ignorance of the University's Code of Student Conduct is never considered an “excuse” for academic misconduct; hence, be sure to review the sections dealing with academic misconduct in the Code of Student Conduct. Be sure also to read the University's Ten Suggestions for Preserving Academic Integrity and/or the Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity (from Northwestern U.). The University's policy on academic misconduct will be enforced in accordance with Faculty Rule 3335-5-54, and all alleged cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Office of Academic Affairs' Committee on Academic Misconduct (COAM) for resolution. In addition, graduate students should be familiar with the Graduate Student Code of Research and Scholarly Conduct (PDF file). Students with questions concerning the University's policies or questions concerning academic or research misconduct are encouraged to ask the instructor any time during the quarter.
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GRADING

There will be no midterm or final examination. Grading will be based on:

Class discussions/participation 30%
Homework assignments (3) 30%
Research project (all phases) 40%
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SCHEDULE

Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
This is a preliminary schedule. Activities and reading selections may be modified when the quarter begins.

Next Schedule back to top WEEK 1
      9/24   Orientation and Introduction
  • Carmen course management system; library facilities; software for linguistic research (concordancers, transcribers, speech-analysis software, etc.).
  • Read ahead for next week's classes
  • Suppl. (Optional) Readings: Chan (2002, 2003)

Next Prev back to top WEEK 2
9/29   Articulatory Phonetics: Place and Manner of Articulation

    Explore the links below before class:

10/01   The Chinese Language: Dialects, Standards, and Changes
Readings:
(Note: October 2: Prof. Guoqing Li (Chinese Studies Librarian, OSU) will guest-lecture on "Chinese dialect resources at OSU Libraries" in Chinese 785 (Modern Chinese Dialects). C680 students are welcome to attend it.)

Mid-Autumn Festival
(3 October 2009)


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10/06   Phonetics, Phonology, and Variation
  • IPA charts, romanization charts, etc.
  • Sound files, waveforms, F0 tracings, etc.
Readings:
10/08   In-Class Recording and Speech Analysis

    Comparison of utterances:

Due: Homework Assignment 1.


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10/13   Typological Description and Grammar
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.2
  • Norman, Ch.7.1-7.5
10/15   Word Structure: Spoken and Signed Language
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.3 (skim)
  • Chan and Xu (2008)
  • Suppl. Reading: Tai (2005, 2008)


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10/20   Linguistic Categorization, Metaphor and Language
Readings (selections from the following):

Due: Homework Assignment 2.

10/22   Simple Declarative Sentences
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.4
  • Norman, Ch.7.6

Chongyang (Double Ninth) Festival
(26 October 2009)


Next Prev back to top WEEK 6
10/27   Temporal Reference and the Two Le's
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.6.1 & 7.1
  • Suppl. Reading: Chan (1980)
10/29   Coverbs, Negation and Verb Copying
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.9, 12 & 13

Due: One-page project proposal and select references.


Next Prev back to top WEEK 7
11/03   Ba and Bei Constructions
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.15 & 16
11/05   Imperatives and Questions
Readings:
  • Li & Thompson, Ch.14 & 18

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11/10   Pragmatics and Sentence-Final Particles
Readings:
11/12   Language Use in Context: Speech Acts and Spoken Discourse
Readings:
  • Wang & Tsai (2005)
  • Wang (2008)
  • Tang and Zhang (2009)

Due: Homework Assignment 3.


Next Prev back to top WEEK 9
11/17   The Chinese Script and China's Language Policy
Readings:
  • Coulmas (1989)
  • Rohsenow (2004)
  • Suppl. readings: Boltz (1996), Chan (2005), Snow (1993)
11/19   Language, Society, and Changing Modes of Written Communication
Readings:
  • Norman, Ch. 10 (background reading: Ch. 7.7)
  • Gao (2008)

Next Prev back to top WEEK 10
11/24   Putonghua, Local Speech, and Language Attitudes
Readings:
  • Blum (2004)
  • Lai (2007)
  • Suppl. reading: Liao (2008)
11/26   No Class

    Thanksgiving Day
1 December 2009 -- Abstract deadline for the Sixth International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century (TCLT6)
The Ohio State University, 12-14 June 2010.

Next Prev back to top WEEK 11
12/01   Student Presentations
 
12/03   Student Presentations

Prev back to top WEEK 12:   EXAM WEEK

Term paper due: Monday, 7 December 2009, 5:00 p.m.

(Note: Request for extension must be made by the start of Week 11.)

31 December 2009 -- Abstract deadline for the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics & 18th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18 & NACCL-22), to be held at Harvard University. (NACCL-20 was held at Ohio State in April 2008.)
(Note: 15 December 2009 is the deadline for receipt of YSA, MJH, IRA papers.)

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READINGS

TEXTBOOKS (Specific chapters are assigned.)
  1. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. [PL1075 .N67 1988]
  2. Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar. Berkeley: U. of California Press. [PL1107 .L5 1981]

ADDITIONAL READINGS

Retrieve e-journal articles at OSU Libraries (click under Quicklinks to select “Online Journals List”) or go to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to locate the e-journal. (At the EJC website, one can also click “Search” at the top menubar to search the database for the specific e-journal article via searching by “Any Field” (default setting), “Article Title”, “Author Name”, etc.) Readings scanned to PDF format by Electronic Reserves for this quarter's offering of Chinese 680 are available for downloading at Carmen. Other readings will be made available during the course.

(For reference: Charts, figures, tables.)

  1. Blum, Susan D. 2004. Good to hear: Using the trope of standard to find one's way in a sea of linguistic diversity. In: Minglang Zhou (editor), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 123-141.
  2. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and Wang Xu. 2008. Modality effects revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language. In: Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang (editors), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). Volume 1. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. Pages 343-360. [ PDF file (252 KB; 2 pages onto 1) -- CSL and TSL video clips (archived at OSU's Media Manager) ]
  3. Coulmas, Florian. 1989. The Writing Systems of the World. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, Inc. (Excerpt: Chapter 6, An alternative to the alphabet: The Chinese writing system, pages 91-110.)
  4. Gao, Liwei. 2008. Language change in progress: Evidence from Computer-Mediated Communication. In: Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang (editors), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). Volume 1. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. Pages 361-377.
  5. Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo. 2008. Much mouth much tongue: Chinese metonymies and metaphors of verbal behaviour. Cognitive Linguistics 19.2:241-282. [OSU e-journal article]
  6. Kuo, Jenny Yi-chun, and Maria D. Sera. 2009. Classifier effects on human categorization: The role of shape classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 18:1-19. [OSU e-journal article]
  7. Lai, Mee-ling. 2007. Exploring language stereotypes in post-colonial Hong Kong through the matched-guise test. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17.2:225–244. [OSU e-journal article]
  8. Li, David C. S. 2006. Chinese as a lingua franca in Greater China. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 26:149-176. [OSU e-journal article]
  9. Malt, Barbara C., Steven A. Sloman, and Silvia P. Gennari. 2003. Universality and language specificity in object naming. Journal of Memory and Language 49:20-42. [OSU e-journal article]
  10. Rohsenow, John S. 2004. Fifty years of script and written language reform in the PRC: The genesis of the Language Law of 2001. In: Minglang Zhou (editor), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 21-43.
    [For an online copy of the original Chinese version of the language law, see the GB-encoded webpage, 中华人民共和国国家通用语言文字法 (教育部, moe.gov.cn) (Other online copies: URL 2 at 新华网, news.xinhuanet.com, URL 3 at 人民日报, people.com.cn)]
  11. Tang, Chen-Hsin and Grace Qiao Zhang. 2009. A contrastive study of compliment responses among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers. Journal of Pragmatics 41.2:325-345.[OSU e-journal article]
  12. Wang, Yu-Fang and Pi-Hua Tsai. 2005. Hao in spoken Chinese discourse: Relevance and coherence. Language Sciences 27 (2005) 215-243. [OSU e-journal article]
  13. Wang, Yu-Fang. 2008. Beyond negation—the roles of meiyou and bushi in Mandarin conversation. Language Sciences 30:679-713. [OSU e-journal article]
  14. Wu, Ruey-Jiuan Regina. 2005. 'There is more here than meets the eye!': The use of final ou in two sequential positions in Mandarin Chinese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (2005) 967-995. [OSU e-journal article]
  15. Yu, Ning. 2004. The eyes for sight and mind. Journal of Pragmatics 36: 663-686. [OSU e-journal article]
  16. Yu, Ning. 2008. Metaphor from body and culture. In: Raymond W. Gibbs (editor), The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pages 247-261.
  17. Zhang, Qing. 2005. A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity. Language in Society 34, 431-466. [OSU e-journal article]
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SOME SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS AND REFERENCES


  • Beijing Daxue (北京大学中国语言文学系语言学教研室编). 1995. Hanyu Fangyan Cihui (汉语方言词汇). Second edition. Beijing: Yuwen Chubanshe.
  • Biq, Yung-O. 2004. Construction, reanalysis, and stance: 'V yi ge N' and variations in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 36:1655–1672. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Boltz, William G. 1996. Early Chinese Writing. In: The World's Writing Systems. Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press. Pages 191-199.
  • Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1980. Temporal reference in Mandarin Chinese: an analytical-semantic approach to the study of the morphemes le 了, zai 在, zhe 着, and ne 呢." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 15.3:33-79. [See PDF file (.42 MB)]
  • Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2002. Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2.1-58. [See PDF file (2 pages onto 1, 1.6 MB)]
  • Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2003. The digital age and speech technology for Chinese language teaching and learning. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.2.49-86. [See PDF file (2 pages onto 1, 1.9 MB)]
  • Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2005. Cantonese opera and the growth and spread of vernacular written Cantonese in the twentieth century. In: Qian Gao (editor), Proceedings of the Seventeenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17). Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Pages 1-18. [See PDF file (prepublication, camera-ready file with pagination and bookmarks added and a few typos corrected).]
  • Chang-Smith, Meiyun. 2000. Empirical evidence for prototypes in linguistic categorization revealed in Mandarin numeral classifiers. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 35.2.19-52.
  • Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Excerpts: Chapter 1.3.6. "Stress", Chapter 1.3.7. "Intonation," and Chapter 8.5. "Particles."]
  • Duanmu, San. 2007. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. Second edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Ettner, Charles. 2002. In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal? In: Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann (eds.), Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Volume 2. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Pages 29-55.
  • Guo, Longsheng. 2004. The relationship between Putonghua and Chinese dialects. In: Minglang Zhou (ed.), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 45-53.
  • Hong, Wei. 2002. How does power affect Chinese politeness? Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2.59-73.
  • Lai, Mee-ling. 2005. Language attitudes of the first postcolonial generation in Hong Kong secondary schools. Language in Society 34:363-388.
  • Lan, H.R. 1994. Her beauty is EATABLE: a culturo-linguistic study. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association XXIX.3.79-97.
  • Li, Chris Wen-Chao. 2004. Conflicting notions of language purity: the interplay of archaising, ethnographic, reformist, elitist and xenophobic purism in the perception of Standard Chinese. Language and Communication 24.2: 97-133. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Li, Fang-kuei. 1973. Languages and dialects of China. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.1.1-13. (A condensed version, which first appeared in 1937 in the Chinese Year Book, Shanghai, was the first scientific classification of the Chinese language into dialect groups, together with other language families spoken in China.)
  • Liao, Chao-chih and Mary I. Bresnahan. 1996. A contrastive pragmatic study on American English and Mandarin refusal strategies. Language Science 18.3-4:703-727. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Liao, Silvie. 2008. A perceptual dialect study of Taiwan Mandarin: Language attitudes in the era of political battle. In: Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). Volume 1. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. Pages 391-408.
  • Liew, Kai Khiun. 2003. Limited pidgin-type patois? Policy, language, technology, identity and the experience of Canto-pop in Singapore. Popular Music 22.2: 217-233. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Lin, Yen-Hwei. 2007. The Sounds of Chinese. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. (Book and audio format of examples on CD.)
  • Saillard, Claire. 2004. On the promotion of Putonghua in China: How a standard language becomes a vernacular. In: Minglang Zhou (ed.), Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 163-176.
  • Sandel, Todd L. 2003. Linguistic capital in Taiwan: The KMT's Mandarin language policy and its perceived impact on language practices of bilingual Mandarin and Tai-gi speakers. Language in Society 32.523-551. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Shen, Xiao-nan. 1989. Interplay of the four citation tones and intonation in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17.1.61-74.
  • Snow, Donald B. 1993. "Chinese dialect as written language: The cases of Taiwanese and Cantonese." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 4.1:15-30.
  • Sun, Chaofen. 2006. Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Sun, Hao. 2004. Opening moves in informal Chinese telephone conversations. Journal of Pragmatics 36.8: 1429-1465. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Swihart, De-An Wu. 2003. The two Mandarins: Putonghua and Guoyu. Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.3:103-118.
  • Tai, James H.-Y. 2005. Modality effects: Iconicity in Taiwan Sign Language. In: Dah-an Ho and Ovid J. L. Tzeng (editors), POLA FOREVER: Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on his 70TH Birthday. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. Pages 19-36. [See PDF file (pre-publication copy) at J. Tai's publication webpage (Chinese URL)]
  • Tai, James H.-Y. 2008. The nature of Chinese grammar: Perspectives from Sign Language. In: Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang (editors), Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). Volume 1. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. Pages 21-40.
  • Wang, Yu-Fang and Pi-Hua Tsai. 2007. Textual and contextual contrast connection: A study of Chinese contrastive markers across different text types. Journal of Pragmatics 39:1775-1815. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Wang, Yu-fang, Pi-hua Tsai, and Meng-ying Ling. 2007. From informational to emotive use: meiyou (`no') as a discourse marker in Taiwan Mandarin conversation. Discourse Studies 9.5:677-701. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Ye, Lei. 1995. Complimenting in Mandarin Chinese. In: Gabriele Kasper (editor), Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language. Honlulu: U. of Hawaii Press. Pages 207-302.
  • Yu, Ning. 2000. Figurative uses of finger and palm in Chinese and English. Metaphor and Symbol 15.3:159-175. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Yu, Ning. 2003. Metaphor, body, and culture: The Chinese understanding of gallbladder and courage. Metaphor and Symbol 18.1: 13-31. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Zhang, Qing. 2007. Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China: Language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing. In: Bonnie McElhinny (ed.), Words, Worlds and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Global Economies. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pages 403–422.
  • Zhou, Minglang. 2001. The spread of Putonghua and language attitude changes in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11.2: 231-253.
  • Zhou, Minglang. 2001. Language policy and reforms of writing systems for minority languages in China. Written Language & Literacy 4.1.31-65. [OSU e-journal article]
  • Zhu, Hua, Wei Li, and Yuan Qian. 2000. The sequential organisation of gift-offering and acceptance in Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 32.81-103. [OSU e-journal article]

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    Originally created on 6 June 1996; revised since for each course offering, with the most recent major revision for Autumn Quarter 2009.
    Last update: 12 October 2009.

    The photo used as the logo was originally from the website of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (中山公園). This garden, which is located in Vancouver Chinatown, Canada, and just half a block from my mother's dwelling, is the only full-sized classical Chinese garden outside China. Although built in the 1980's, it used the ancient techniques of the originals that were built in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

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