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WEEK 1. CHINESE & OTHER WRITING SYSTEMS
09.22   Part A	Orientation and Introduction Course introduction, Carmen course management system, etc. Lecture: Chinese and Other Writing Systems in China and the World Reading: DeFrancis (2002) Suppl. (= Optional) Reading: Erbaugh (2002)	09.22   Part B	Other Class Activities Introduction to Chinese computing (encodings, input methods, fonts, etc.) Suppl. Reading (for reference): T. Chan (2003)

WEEK 2. ORIGINS & DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHINESE SCRIPT
09.29   Part A	Readings: Keightley (1989) Boltz (1996, 1999)	09.29   Part A	Other Class Activities 3:30-3:45 p.m.: Introduction to the Experimental Classroom (Dr. Rebecca Bias, FLC)

WEEK 3. WRITING REFORM & SCRIPT SIMPLIFICATION
10.06   Part A	Readings: Chen (1999), Ch. 8 & 9 Chan & He (1988)	10.06   Part B	Other Class Activities

WEEK 4. LANGUAGE, CULTURE & THE SEMANTIC COMPONENT
10.13.   Part A	Readings: T'sou (1981) Ettner (2002) Suppl. Reading: Zang (1995)	10.13   Part B	Other Class Activities Guest Lecturer: Jing Yan, DEALL Due: Homework Assignment 1.

WEEK 5. WRITING REFORM & PHONETICIZATION SCHEMES
10.20   Part A	Readings: Chen (1999), Ch. 10 Mair (2002) Cheng (2001) - skim	10.20   Part B	Other Class Activities

WEEK 6. DIALECT WRITING & DIALECT LITERATURE
10.27   Part A	Readings: Chen (1999), Ch. 7 Gunn (2006) Li (2000) - skim Suppl. Reading: Chan (2005)	10.27   Part B	Other Class Activities Due: Homework Assignment 2.

WEEK 7. SCRIPT, READING & FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
11.03   Part A	Readings: Tzeng (2002) - skim Tzeng and Hung (2002) Hansell (2002)	11.03   Part B	Other Class Activities Due: One-page project proposal and select references.

WEEK 8. (VETERANS' DAY OBSERVED -- NO CLASS)
11.10		11.10

WEEK 9. DIGRAPHIA, BILITERACY & THE FUTURE OF SCRIPT REFORM
11.17   Part A	Readings: Chen (1999), Ch. 11 & 12 Wang et al. (2005) DeFrancis (2006) Suppl. Rdg: Gao & Pandharipande (2006)	11.17   Part B	Other Class Activities Due: Homework Assignment 3.

WEEK 10. (THANKSGIVING -- NO CLASS)
11.24		11.24

WEEK 11. FINAL WEEK ACTIVITIES
12.01   Part A	Student Presentations	12.01   Part B	Student Presentations and Other Class Activities

WEEK 12:   EXAM WEEK
Term paper due: Monday, 4 December 2006, 5:00 p.m. (Note: Request for extension must be made by the start of Week 11.)

1. TEXTBOOKS.
   1. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [See "Reading Selections" below for selected chapters from Chen (1999).]

   2. Erbaugh, Mary S., ed. 2002. Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing. Columbus, OH: National East Asian Language Resource Center, Ohio State University. [See "Reading Selections" below for individual authors' chapters in Erbaugh (2002).]

2. READING SELECTIONS.

   Retrieve e-journal articles at OSU Libraries (click under Quicklinks to select "E-Journals") 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 OSU Libraries (click under Quicklinks and select either "Reserves by Course" or "Reserves by Professor"). Other readings will be made available during the course.

   1. 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.

   2. Boltz, William G. 1999. "Language and writing." In: The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Pages 74-123. [Excerpt: Section on "The Chinese Script," pages 106-123] [E-Reserve]

   3. Chan, Marjorie K.M. and Baozhang He. 1988. "A study of the one thousand most frequently used characters." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 23.3:49-68. [PDF file, 1.6 MB]

   4. Chen, Ping. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Main Textbook]
      • Chapter   7. "Dialect writing." Pages 114-128.
      • Chapter   8. "Basic features of the Chinese writing system." Pages 131-147.
      • Chapter   9. "Simplification of the traditional writing system." Pages 148-163.
      • Chapter 10. "Phonetization of Chinese." Pages 164-190.
      • Chapter 11. "Use and reform of the Chinese writing system: present and future." Pages 191-201.
      • Chapter 12. "Conclusion." Pages 202-203.

   5. Cheng, W. K. 2001. "Enlightenment and Unity: Language Reformism in Late Qing China." Modern Asian Studies 35.2:469-493. [OSU e-journal artcle]

   6. DeFrancis, John. 2002. "The ideographic myth." [In: Erbaugh (2002), Chapter 1, pages 1-20.]

   7. DeFrancis, John. 2006. "The prospects for Chinese writing reform." Sino-Platonic Papers 171 (June 2006). Pages 1-26. {Note: Freely-downloadable from Sino-Platonic Papers as a PDF file.)

   8. Ettner, Charles. 2002. "In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal?" In: Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Volume 2. Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co. Pages 29-55.

   9. Gunn, Eward M. 2006. Rendering the Regional: Local Language in Contemporary Chinese Media. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [Excerpt: Chapter 4, "Inadequacies explored: Fiction and film in Mainland China." Pages 157-203. (Note: Read with focus on dialect writing.)] [E-Reserve]

   10. Hansell, Mark. 2002. "Functional answers to structural problems in thinking about writing." [In: Erbaugh (2002), Chapter 7, pages 124-176.]

   11. Keightley, David N. 1989. "The origins of writing in China: Scripts and cultural contexts." In: The Origins of Writing. Edited by Wayne M. Senner. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. Pages 171-202.

   12. Li, David C.S. 2000. "Phonetic borrowing: Key to the vitality of written Cantonese in Hong Kong." Written Language and Literacy 3.2:199-233. [OSU e-journal article]

   13. Mair, Victor H. 2002. "Sound and meaning in the history of characters: Views of China's earliest script reformers." [In: Erbaugh (2002), Chapter 6, pages 105-123.]

   14. T'sou, Benjamin K.Y. 1981. "A sociolinguistic analysis of the logographic writing system of Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 9.1:1-19.

   15. Tzeng, Ovid J.L. 2002. "Current issues in learning to read Chinese." In: Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues. Edited by Wenling Li, Janet S. Gaffney, and Jerome L. Packard. Boston, Dordrecht, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pages 3-15.

   16. Tzeng, Ovid J.L. and Daisy L. Hung. 2002. "A phantom of linguistic relativity: Script, speech, and thought." [In: Erbaugh (2002), Chapter 3, pages 52-74.]

   17. Wang, Min, Charles A. Perfetti, and Ying Liu. 2005. "Chinese-English biliteracy acquisition: Cross-language and writing system transfer." Cognition 97:67-88. [OSU e-journal article]

1. Boltz, William G. 1986. "Early Chinese writing." World Archaeology 17.3:420-436.

2. Boltz, William G. 2003. The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society. (Note: First published in 1994 in hardcover, with the paperback edition published in 2003 containing minor corrections and a new preface.)

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) Two volumes, edited by Hua Lin. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of California. Volume 2, pages 35-52. [PDF file, 240 KB]

4. 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. [PDF file, 1.03 MB]

5. Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2005. "Cantonese opera and the growth and spread of vernacular written Cantonese in the twentieth century." Proceedings of the Seventeenth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17), edited by Qian Gao. Los Angeles: GSIL Publications, University of Southern California. Pages 1-18. [PDF file, 415 KB (camera-ready, pre-publication version with pagination and bookmarks added and a few typos corrected)]

6. Chan, Thomas. 2001. Orthographic Change: Yue (Cantonese) Chinese Dialect Characters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. M.A. thesis, Ohio State University. [PDF file, 3.2 MB]

7. Chan, Thomas A. 2003. "Character sets and characters: The basis of Chinese language computing." Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 38.2:87-108.

8. Chang, Nien-chuang T. 1981. "The devising and adoption of the Chinese phonetic symbols (zhuyin fuhao)." In: Towards a History of Phonetics. Edited by R.E. Asher and Eugenie J.A. Henderson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pages 141-160.

9. Chiang, William Wei. 1995. We Two Know the Script, We Have Become Good Friends: Linguistic and Social Aspects of the Women's Script Literacy in Southern Hunan, China. Lanham: University Press of America.

10. Coulmas, Florian. 1989. The Writing Systems of the World. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.
    (Chapter 6 is on the Chinese writing system, and Chapter 7 is on the adoption of the Chinese script for other East Asian languages.)

11. Coulmas, Florian. 1996. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers. (First published in paperback, 1999.) [OSU Libraries have two copies, the first is in SUL Reference Stacks (Z40 .C67 1996) for on-site use, and a second copy at OSU Book Depository (Z40 .C67 1996).]

12. Chao, Yuen Ren. 1968. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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

14. DeFrancis, John. 1989. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

15. Erbaugh, Mary S. 2002. "How the ideographic myth alienates Asian Studies from Psychology and Linguistics." In: Mary S. Erbaugh (ed.) Difficult Characters: Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese and Japanese Writing. Columbus, OH: National East Asian Language Resource Center, Ohio State University. Pages 21-51.

16. Gao, Liwei and Rajeshwari Pandharipande. 2006 (to appear). "The pragmatics of English use in bilingual advertising." CLS 39, Volume 1: Papers from the 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: CLS Publications.

17. Hanley, J. Richard, Ovid Tzeng, and H.-S. Huang. 1999. "Learning to read Chinese." In: Learning to Read and Write: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Edited by Margaret Harris and Giyoo Hatano. Cambridge, U.K./New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 173-195.

18. Hannas, William C. 1997. Asia's Orthographic Dilemma. (With a foreword by John DeFrancis.) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

19. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1923. Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese. by Bernhard Karlgren Paris: P. Geuthner. (Reprints include: Chengwen Pub. Co., Taiwan in 1966; Dover Publications, New York, in 1974; and Asea Munhwasa, Soul T'ukpy'olsi (with Korean introduction), in 1975.)

20. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1940. Grammata Serica: Script and Phonetics in Chinese and Sino-Japanese. Taipei: Ch'eng-Wen Pub. Co. (Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, no. 12, 1940.)

21. Karlgren, Bernhard. 1957. Grammata Serica Recensa. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. (Reprinted from The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. Bulletin no. 29, 1957.)

22. Logan, Robert K. 1986. The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
    (Passages from the book include: "Chinese writing has evolved so little from its pictographic origins that contemporary Chinese are able to read texts 3,500 years old." (p.43). "... it is my contention that one of the 'inhibitory factors to the growth of modern science,' ironically enough, was the Chinese ideographic script. It is my belief that the first scientific literature, whether Oriental or Occidental, was destined to be written in an alphabetic script because the alphabet creates the environmental conditions under which abstract theoretical science flourishes." (p.54).)

23. Mair, Victor H. 1996. "Modern Chinese Writing." In: The World's Writing Systems. Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.200-208.

24. McCawley, James D. 1984. The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters. Chicago and London: U. of Chicago Press.

25. Nakanishi, Akira. 1980. Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms. Rutland; Tokyo: C.E. Tuttle.

26. Norman, Jerry. 1988. Chinese. Cambridge U. Press. (Chapter 3 is on the history of the Chinese script.)

27. Packard, Jerome L., Wenling Li, and Janet S. Gaffney (eds.) 2002. Chinese Children's Reading Acquisition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

28. Qian, Gaoyin, David Reinking, and Ronglan Yang. 1994. "The effects of character complexity on recognizing Chinese characters." Contemporary Educational Psychology 19:155-166. [OSU e-journal article]

29. Qiu, Xigui (裘錫圭). 2000. Chinese Writing (文字學概要). Translated by Gilbert L. Mattos and Jerry Norman. [= Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4] Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies.

30. Ramsey, S. Robert. 1987. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. (Chapters 1 and 8 concern writing and language reform.)

31. Sampson, Geoffrey. 1985. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford: Stanford U. Press. (Chapter 8 is on "A logographic system: Chinese writing.")

32. Sergent, Wallace. 1990. A Study of the Oral Reading Strategies of Advanced and Highly Advanced Second Language Readers of Chinese. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

33. Serruys, Paul L-M. 1984. "On the system of the pu shou in the Shuo-wen Chieh-tzu." Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology 55:651-753.

34. Tan, Li Hai, John A. Spinks, Jia-Hong Gao, Ho-Ling Liu, Charles A. Perfetti, Jinhu Xiong, Kathryn A. Stofer, Yonglin Pu, Yijun Liu, and Peter T. Fox. 2000. "Brain activation in the processing of Chinese characters and words: A functional MRI study." Human Brain Mapping 10:16-27. [OSU e-journal article]

35. Tan, Li Hai, Ho-Ling Liu, Charles A. Perfetti, John A. Spinks, Peter T. Fox, and Jia-Hong Gao. 2001. "The neural system underlying Chinese logograph reading." NeuroImage 13:836-846. [OSU e-journal article]

36. Tang, Jian. 1996. Prototypes in Lesser Seal Scripts (China, ca. 221 BC - AD 220). Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University.

37. Taylor, Insup, and M. Martin Taylor. 1995. Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Amsterdom/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
    (Part I on Chinese includes chapters on text writing in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese; reforming of spoken and written Chinese; learning Pinyin and Chinese characters; and history of education and literacy in China.)

38. Taylor, Insup, and David R. Olson. 1995. Scripts and Literacy: Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    (Includes In-Mao Liu's article on "Script factors that affect literacy: alphabetic vs. logographic languages," Che Kan Leong's article on "Orthographic and psycholinguistic considerations in developing literacy in Chinese," and Insup Taylor and Kwonsaeng Park's article on "Differential processing of content words and function words: Chinese characters vs. phonetic scripts."

39. Wang, Jian, Albrecht Inhoff, and Hsuan-chih Chen (eds.) 1999. Reading Chinese Script: A Cognitive Analysis. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

40. Wieger, Léon. 1927. Chinese Characters; Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification: A Thorough Study from Chinese Documents. Second edition. Translated into English by L. Davrout. (Reprinted om 1965 by Paragon Book Reprint Corp. (This is enlarged and revised according to the 4th French edition.)

41. Wilder, George Durand and J. H. Ingram. 1972. Analysis of Chinese Characters. Taipei: Ch'eng Wen Pub. Co.

42. Woon, Wee Lee. 1987. Chinese Writing: Its Origin and Evolution. Macau: University of East Asia.

43. Yau, Shun-chiu. 1983. "Temporal order in the composition of Archaic Chinese Ideograms." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11.2:187-213.

44. Yin, Binyong and John S. Rohsenow. 1994. Modern Chinese Characters. Beijing: Sinolingua.

45. Zang, Kehe (臧克和). 1995. Shuowen Jiezide Wenhua Shuojie (说文解字的文化说解) [Published English title: A Cultural Interpretation on Shuowen Jiezi]. Wuhan: Hubei Renmin Chubanshe. (Excerpt: Chapter 3.3 on "Female concept" (女性意象). Pp. 125-142. Optional reading.)

46. Zee, A. 1990. Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.

47. Zhou, Minglang. 2001. "Language policy and reforms of writing systems for minority languages in China." Written Language & Literacy 4.1:31-65. [This was an OSU e-journal article]

48. Zhou, Youguang (周有光). The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts (中国语文的代演进). Translated by Liqing Zhang (张立青). Columbus, OH: National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC), Ohio State University.

49. Ziegler, Johannes C., Li Hai Tan, Conrad Perry, and Marie Montant. 2000. "Phonology matters: The phonological frequency effect in written Chinese." Psychological Science 11.3:234-238. [OSU e-journal article]

    .... more to be added ...
    
    Also see Chinese 683 (Spring 1988): Readings, Chinese 683 (Autumn 2002): Readings, OSU Libraries' collection of works on Xu Shen (Hsu Shen)'s Shuowen Jiezi (Shuo wen chieh tzu), and OSU Libraries' online catalogue subject searches for Chinese characters -- History and Chinese language -- Writing, etc., for publications in Chinese, English, French, Japanese, and other languages.

1. Bishop, Tom. 2002. Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese. Version 3.0. User's Guide. Third edition. (First edition (1995) and second edition (1998) were co-authored by Peter Tannenbaum and Tom Bishop.) Portland, OR: Wenlin Institute, Inc.
   (For PCs and Macs, Wenlin 3.x supports Unicode 3.1 and GB18030 (China), which cover over 70,000 Chinese characters, as well as Big5+ (Taiwan). The new Chinese-English dictionary 词典 (dictionary of words and phrases) has over 200,000 entries.)

2. Björkstén, Johan. 1994. Learn to Write Chinese Characters. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

3. Fenn, Henry C. (ed.). 1953. Chinese Characters Easily Confused. New Haven, CT: Far Eastern Publications. (Reprinted in 1984 by Lucky Book Co., Ltd., Taiwan.)

4. Naughton, William, and Ying Li. 1999. Reading & Writing Chinese. Revised edition. Boston and Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.

   (etc.)

• Ohio State University:
  
  • OSU's Online Resources at Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW).
    Excellent resources, "handouts", tutorials, etc., to assist undergraduate students -- and those for whom English is a second (or third) foreign language -- in their research and writing. The Center also provides a web page on plagiarism, giving a definition of plagiarism, together with a set of Basic Citation Rules and Examples, including use of direct quotes versus paraphrasing, etc. To cite books for this course, one recommendation is to use the sciences style for bibliography and in-text citations in the Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide, available online from OSU Libraries.
  • net.TUTOR (OSU Libraries' set of online tutorials, such as developing research skills in using WWW and other Net resources)

• Student Resources for Compositions and Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (Composition Center, Dartmouth College)
  NOTE: How to cite a webpage -- include three pieces of information: title, URL, and date of access - for example:
  

  Marjorie Chan's Chinese 683: Study of the Chinese Writing System <http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c683.htm> (Autumn 2006) [Accessed 18 September 2006].

  (Or click here to cite this particular web page using "copy-and-paste." Hit 'BACK' on your web browser to return to this part of the web page.)

• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources (Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)

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

  Suggestion for help with selecting a topic for your term paper project: 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. 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). 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. It is also useful to do a search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- Writing, with over a hundred entries, or for Chinese characters, with entries under different subheadings. In other cases, you may be interested in using some dictionaries as your source of data. One place to start is to search under 'SUBJECT' for Chinese language -- dictionaries, which will give you over 300 titles, including a few bibliographies of Chinese language dictionaries (some of which are two-way, Chinese-English/English-Chinese dictionaries).

  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. In addition, character/word frequency lists can also be generated by concordancing software. (See, for example, my 2002 JCLTA article, "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research" (PDF, 1.03 MB).)

• Ohio State University also subscribes to a number of linguistics journals with recent issues digitized and available online in PDF and/or HTML format. The benefits are many: it reduces shelving space, eliminates "lost" and "missing" items, and enables instantaneous downloading and multiple-user access for research and course work.

  To retrieve articles from these e-journals, go to:
  

  • OhioLink: Electronic Journal Center. (E-journals include Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, etc.) Alternatively, go via OSU Libraries' OSU Libraries - Electronic Journals. Some sources of e-journals:
    
  • Cambridge Journal Online (OSU subscriptions include: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Language in Society, Language Teaching, Language Variation and Change, Phonology, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.)
  • IDEAL: International Digital Electronic Access Library (OSU subscriptions include: Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, Computer Speech & Language, Journal of Memory and Language, and Journal of Phonetics.)
  • ISTOR (Depository of back issues of journals, including e-journals for Asian studies, such as Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 1-55, 1936-1995 currently, with a "moving wall" of 5 years) and Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. 16-54, 1956-1995; and Vol. 1-15, 1941-1956 published under the title, The Far Eastern Quarterly; OSU Columbus only))
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI): Electronic Index to Journal Articles. (Chadwyck-Healey's electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. (Participants in JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections can now link directly from the relevant index records in PCI to the corresponding full text within JSTOR.)

• OSU Libraries - Chinese Collection (This is the website for information about our Chinese collection. The introduction contains a description of the history, scope, size, and strengths of the collection (and that includes Chinese linguistics).)

• Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) (library catalogs, research databases, etc.)

• Journal Abstracts and Full-Text (Blackwell Synergy Search Engine) Online search of articles from 873 leading journals published by Blackwell, including those in social and behavioral sciences, of which a subgroup is "language and linguistics". Access to abstracts and full-text (PDF files) also if OSU Libraries subscribes to a given e-journal.

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Online, searchable database through OSU Libraries.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Proquest's database contains citations for dissertations and theses done at U.S., Canadian and some foreign institutions. Can preview the first 24 pages of dissertations published since 1997. Free PDFs of all dissertations done since 1997 (OSU has a 1-year trial from March 2006 to Feb 2007).

• RedLightGreen.com. (RedLightGreen.com delivers information from members of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) concerning more than 130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select. Founded in 1974, RLG is a nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning.)

• Linguist List: 2006 Tables of Contents (TOC) (for some linguistic journals, and links to back issues as well)

• Indices/Tables of Content of some Chinese linguistics journals (subscribed by OSU Libraries):
  
  • Journal of Chinese Linguistics: Index of Articles (1973- ).
  • Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association: Authors and Topics Indices (1966- ).
  • Journal of East Asian Linguistics: Table of Contents of Published Issues (1992- ).
  • Yuyan Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu [English title: Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies] (No online indices -- Main (EAS): PL1004 .Y827)
  • Yuyan Yanjiu: Table of Contents Index (Eng./GB) (1981- ); (Main: PL1004 .Y84)
    
    Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.

    Zhongguo Yuwen   中国语文 : Table of Contents Index (GB for now, Eng. under construction) (1995- ).

• Additional journal titles subscribed by OSU Libraries, originally provided by Guoqing Li, Chinese Studies Librarian (9/19/01 guest lecture in C680), with romanization converted from Wade-Giles to Pinyin, and Chinese characters added:
  
  • Zhongguo yu wen 中国语文 (Renmin Jiaoyu Chubanshe) PL1004 .C44 (bimonthly)
  • Zhongguo yu wen 中國語文 (Taipei, Taiwan) PL1004 .C5 (monthly)
  • Zhongguo yu wen tong xun 中國語文通訊. PL1004 .C57 (bimonthly)
  • Han zi wen hua 漢字文化. PL1281 .H365 (quarterly)
  • Hanyu Xuexi 汉语学习. PL1004 .H35 (bimonthly)
  • Yuwen Jiaoxue Tongxun 语文教学通讯. PL1004 .Y74 (monthly)
  • Yu wen jian she tong xun 語文建設通訊 (Hong Kong). PL1175 .A1 H35Y8 (quarterly)
  • Yuwen Xuexi 语文学习 (Renmin Jiaoyu Chubanshe). PL1004 .Y8 (monthly; 1954-1959,2004)
  • Yuwen Xuexi语文学习 (Shanghai Shifan Daxue) PL1004 Y824 (monthly)
  • Yuwenyuekan 语文月刊. PL1004 .Y8267

    Other journals include:

  • Zhongguo wen zi 中國文字, PL1004 .C42
  • Gu wen zi yan jiu 古文字研究, PL1281 .K827
  • Wenzi Gaige 文字改革. PL1175.A1 W4
  • Yu yan wen zi xue 语言文字学, PL1004 .Y829

• MLA International Bibliography A database produced by Modern Language Association of America (MLA), it is available online for access to critical materials since 1963 on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore; proved access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.

• MLA Directory of Periodicals Detailed information on more than 7,100 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

• 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 (including the DEALL Search Engine for searching well over 1,000 webpages within our department's web subdirectory), publishers, Asian studies associations and journals (with indices), traditional Chinese culture, Chinese e-texts, etc.
  2. ChinaLinks2: Chinese Language Software & AV Programs
     Downloadable CJK fonts and decoders, IPA and Pinyin fonts, etc.
  3. ChinaLinks3: Chinese Language and Linguistics
     Chinese dialectology; Chinese linguistics associations and journals (with tables of content/indices); conferences; Chinese Linguistics Page (with online Chinese linguistics articles), links to website with Chinese Romanization Comparative Charts (for Hanyu Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Zhuyin Fuhao, Tongyong (adopted in July 2002 by the Taiwan government)), as well as links concerning Unicode and Chinee Character Sets and Internal Codes.
  4. ChinaLinks4: General Linguistics and Internet Resources
     Links to linguistics associations and journals (with tables of contents and indices, etc.) -- including a link to the International Digital Electronic Access Library's website, which houses such publications as the Journal of Phonetics, with downloadable abstracts and recently-published, full articles (in PDF format) for OSU and other subscribing institutions (guest logins are also available); general references (including a link to the searchable, on-line Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries and references), other internet resources, transcription tools and (commercial and freely-downloadable) software for speech analysis; tutorials for acoustic phonetics, including G. Dillon's Resources for Studying Human Speech and CSLU - Center for Spoken Language Understanding's website for Spectrogram Reading; web-authoring tutorials and tools, etc.
  5. Word Lists and Online Glossaries/Dictionaries (my links (now part of my ChinaLinks.osu.edu site) to online and downloadable Chinese word lists, frequency lists, dictionaries, etc.)

• On-Line Dissertation Abstracts (on-line copy of my short piece for the IACL Newsletter, with hot links to websites, such as UMI, for abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations (and some M.A. theses))

• Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language and Gender On-Line Bibliography (bibliography, some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, links to publications and links on nüshu (women's script from Hunan, PRC), etc.)

• Marjorie Chan's Online Bibliography for Chinese 580 (bibliography of English-language sources compiled in Spring 1999 for the undergraduate course, Chinese 580 (Chinese Language: Description and Analysis); updated periodically)

• Marjorie Chan's Courses and Sample Syllabi (readings and references may provide a handy source to look for research topics or for supplementary reading, including Chinese 683: Study of the Chinese Writing System (Spring 1988)).

• EALL 683: Scripts of East Asia. (This course is taught by our Dept. chair, Prof. James Unger. The online course syllabus includes references to psycholinguistic studies.)

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