The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity

The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781351967310
ISBN-13 : 1351967312
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Download or read book The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity written by Song Jiang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.


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