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Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan Dept. of E. Asian Lang. & Lit. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 U.S.A. |
| COURSE: | Chinese 785. Modern Chinese Dialects Credits & Call No: 3 credits. U G 04444-0 Prerequisites: Chinese 680 or 681, or permission of instructor Course page: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/c785.htm |
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| TIME & PLACE: | R 1:30 - 4:18 p.m. 245 Central Classroom Building (2009 Millikin Road) (multimedia classroom with computer and internet connection) |
| CONTACT INFO: | Office hours: R 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., or by appointment Office: 366 Cunz Hall Tel: 292.3619 (292.5816 for messages, 292.3225 for faxes) E-mail: chan.9 @osu.edu (close the gap) Home page: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/ |
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Reading selections will be made available and placed on Reserve in Main Library as needed.
Some reference books will be placed on Reserve in Main Library during the quarter. Check OSU Libraries' Course Reserves (by Prof/TA or Course) for an online list of books placed on Reserve for Chinese 785. (Note: Reserved materials for a given course are listed online for the current quarter only.) Some articles are in electronic journals, available at OSU Libraries: Journals Online. Alternatively, go to OSU Libraries: Find E-Journals.A separate set of supplementary readings and other bibliographical references for this course can be found in my online Modern Chinese Dialects Bibliography.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course investigates the lingusitic structures of major Chinese dialects from a cross-dialectal, comparative approach. Select topics pertaining to socio-cultural aspects of the varieties of Chinese will also be investigated, such as multilingualism, language planning, code-switching / code-mixing, attitudes and attitude changes, etc. Other topics -- such as vernacular characters, language and media, language and local / popular culture, language and ethnic identity, language and gender, and so forth -- will also be explored subject to class interest.
COURSE OJECTIVES
The course aims to provide students with opportunities to explore and examine, through assigned readings and analyses of dialect data, structural similarities and differences among the modern Chinese dialects, together with other related linguistic topics.
The course will be conducted through lectures combined with class discussions of assigned readings. Sound files, video / film clips, and other multimedia materials will be presented in class for analysis and discussion. Course work includes each student leading the discussion of two readings (to be selected by the student in consultation with the instructor), and submitting a final project at the end of the quarter.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Students are expected to:
- Read and reflect on assigned readings prior to class.
- Attend class regularly and participate actively in class discussions and other class activities.
. A mailing list for the class will also be used for dissemination of information and student-initiated discussions concerning topics brought up in class.
- Present two readings for class discussion. Outlines should form an integral part of the presentation. Other materials to accompany the presentation, such as sound files or other multimedia materials, may be prepared as needed.
- Present the final project orally in the final week of clas. (Obtain by Week 6 the instructor's approval for the topic of the final project.)
- Submit a written version of the final project (about 10 double-spaced pages plus references) at the end of the quarter. Include textual data, sound files, and/or multimedia materials as needed. Students are expected to upload their project online for class-viewing.
. Final projects may be in the form of publication-based research, literature review and analysis, web-based project, or research and analysis based on fieldwork and other data or corpora (from transcriptional data, survey results, transcribed interviews, etc.).
. Students who do not have their own web account may submit their final project on disk or via email attachment for the instructor to upload for class-viewing.
Class discussions/participation 20% Article presentations (2) 40% Final project 40% 100%
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| WEEK 1 |
Introduction and Orientation. Chinese in the North American Context |
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| April 1 | Introduction and orientation. Lecture: Language, demographic changes, and the Canadian scene Class discussion: Chinese language media and the impact of immigration and demographic changes in Canada and the U.S. (See resources on Chinese Canadian/American history time line, etc.) Readings: |
| WEEK 2 |
Dialect Classification: North, Central, and South |
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| April 8 | Discussion and other class activities Readings: |
| WEEK 3 |
Denominal Verbs Across Dialects | Chinese Dialects and Local Operas |
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| April 15 | First class hour: Discussion of the reading Remainder of class time: Viewing and discussion of film clips of regional operas, spoken and sung in the local dialects, based on traditional stories and themes common to all the Chinese opera traditions. Reading: |
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Postposing and the Prosody-Discourse Interface |
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| April 22 | Discussion and other class activities Readings: |
| WEEK 5 |
Language and Gender: The Case of Sentence-Final Particles |
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| April 29 | Discussion and other class activities (including viewing an episode
from the Guangzhou TV series, 万花筒 (萬花筒) 'Kaleidoscope,'
the data source for Chan (2002)) Readings: |
| WEEK 6 |
Reading, Vernacular Characters, and Encoding Systems |
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| May 6 | Discussion and other class activities Readings: |
| WEEK 7 |
Language Policy, Language Attitude, and the Spread of Standardization |
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| May 13 | Discussion and other class activities Readings: |
| WEEK 8 |
Code-Switching, Language Maintenance, and Ethnic Identity in North America |
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| May 20 | Discussion and other class activities Readings: |
| WEEK 9 |
Mixed Codes and Other Language Contact Phenomena in East and Southeast Asia |
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| May 27 | Discussion and other class activities Readings: |
| WEEK 10 |
Final Week Activities |
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| June 3 |
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| WEEK 11 |
Examination Week |
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| June 8 | Submission of Final Project. (Prior permission required for deadline extension.) Due: Tuesday, June 8, 12:00 noon. |
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| Weekly topics and readings will be finalized after the first week of classes. An asterisk (*) marks e-journal articles available at OSU Libraries: Journals Online. Alternatively, go to OSU Libraries: Find E-Journals. |
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),
synonym (tongyi 'same meaning') dictionaries, antonym (fanyi 'opposite meaning') dictionaries,
dialect (and bi-dialect) dictionaries and vocabulary compilations, loanword dictionaries,
word frequency lists, etc. Main Library also has various bilingual, English-Chinese dictionaries
and glossaries of linguistic terminology.
(There are also word lists, glossaries, and dictionaries in digital form that are 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.)
The Chinese Dialects database is based on William S-Y Wang and Chin-Chuan Cheng's DOC (Dialects of China) (a.k.a.
"Dictionary on Computer"), containing the original 17 dialects in the Hanyu Fangyi Zihui (1962 ed.), Middle Chinese rhyme table categories,
plus Shanghai, early Mandarin (Zhongyuan Yinyun), and other info entered into that database.
For the original database on which Starostin's database was built, see Chin-chuan Cheng's downloadable DOC (Dialects of China) Files at Chinese U. of Hong Kong.
(The site has downloadable fonts (DOCIPA and Chinese Pinyin) and .txt and Chinese Windows .doc files that are also viewable using MS Word97 (or above) for English Windows.)
Copyright © 200x Marjorie K.M. Chan. All rights reserved on course syllabus and on-line materials developed for the course.
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ONLINE RESOURCES
OSU Libraries currently has a fairly large collection of publications on Chinese dialects, including
both linguistic studies of individual dialects as well as Chinese dialect dictionaries.
A search for "Chinese language -- dialects"
under SUBJECT, for example, yields well over a hundred entries. There are also a number of Chinese
linguistics bibliographies. A search for "Chinese language -- bibliography"
will yield a list of them, including Paul Yang's (1981) Chinese Dialectology: A Selected and Classified Biblioraphy,
which contains an extensive listing of publications on Chinese dialects up to around 1980.
One bibliography that got overlooked in the cataloging under "Chinese language -- bibliography" is
William S-Y Wang and Anatole Lyovin's 1970, database-generated, 513-page CLIBOC: Chinese Linguistics Bibliography On Computer.
(Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press) [OSU Book Depository: Z699.5.C53 W3].
Among the library resources available is a journal dedicated to Chinese
dialectology, and that is Fangyan,
with the first issue published in 1979.
Links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, journal abstracts, etc.
Web-accessible, full text digital (PDF) files of recently-completed dissertations from OhioLINK institutions: Ohio State University, Miami University,
Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, etc.
A full set of online library catalogues accessible to OSU users are listed,
with links to OhioLINK (combined catalog of over 50 Ohio university and college libraries, the State Library of Ohio, etc.),
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) (includes links to Ohio public libraries),
CIC Center for Library Initiatives (search interface to catalogs of 13 major research libraries (Big Ten Libraries plus University of Chicago),
RLIN (combined catalog of holdings of hundreds of major research and academic libraries),
Library of Congress Catalog (U.S. National Library),
CRL (Center for Research Libraries catalog),
WorldCat (combined catalog of holdings of thousands of libraries in the US and beyond),
LibWeb (Directory of library Web sites from more than 70 countries), etc.
Part of Wenze Hu and Hongyin Tao's Chinese Linguistics Page.
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). [OSU is a subscribing member and has full access to UMI's database of abstracts. In the case
of the more recent dissertations, PDF previews of excerpts of the dissertations are also available.]
Online, searchable database based on the Hanyu Fangyin Zihui (1962 ed.), etc.;
part of Sergei Starostin's Etymological Databases.
(See also his Introduction,
his help page on Using the Etymological Database,
and his key to
Encoding of Special Symbols (English/Russian).)
Starostin's website includes his Sino-Tibetan Etymology database (for Chinese and four other S-T languages);
his Chinese Database of circa 4000 characters
with entries in characters, modern (Beijing)/Middle Chinese/Old Chinese, fanqie,
dialect pronunciations, Shuowen gloss, translation, etc.; and the Chinese Dialects database.
City U. of Hong Kong's
website for Chinese Language and Linguistics: Archive of Speech Samples of Chinese Dialects, with downloadable
RealAudio sound files and corresponding texts of narrations of the "North Wind and the Sun" in different
Chinese dialects e.g., Shanghai (Wu), Cantonese (Yue), Chaozhou (Southern Min), etc.
. Note: As indicated in that article, "[m]ost of the Chinese-speaking population live in BC [British Columbia] and Ontario,
Vancouver and Toronto being the two most populous cities."
The city of Vancouver, in fact, has the largest Chinatown in Canada, and is the second largest Chinatown in North America,
after that in San Francisco in the United States. While Chinese is the No. 3 language in Canada, it should be noted that
"Mandarin and Cantonese are the mother tongues in 30 per cent of Vancouver homes," making Chinese
the No. 2 language in Vancouver, and making those of Chinese ancestry the dominant 'minority' ethnic group in that
city.*
[*Source: Chinatown Vancouver Online: Introduction to Canada's largest
Chinatown.]
. Homepage with Table of Contents to 4 satellite pages and their contents:
Bibliography contains references in English covering a number of topics. Three topics that are relevant
to Week 9 of this course are: (1) Language contact, language planning/reform, and language use;
(2) Bilingualism and multilingualism; and (3) Languge use in society: sociolinguistic and pragmatic issues.
Some web-accessible articles, online collections of gender-related course syllabi, etc.
The supplementary readings and general references that were in earlier Chinese 785 course syllabi are
extracted in late March 2004 to form a separate online bibliography.
This seminar, offered in Autumn Quarter 1999, includes many references on sentence-final particles and
related prosodic phenomena.
This seminar, offered in Winter Quarter 2004, includes readings and references to the prosody-discourse
interaction.
Contains readings and references that may
provide an additional source for references.
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