Language Change in East Asia

Language Change in East Asia
Title Language Change in East Asia PDF eBook
Author Thomas E. McAuley
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 322
Release 2000
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780700713776

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This text adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, with sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology.

Language Change in East Asia

Language Change in East Asia
Title Language Change in East Asia PDF eBook
Author T. E. McAuley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 315
Release 2013-10-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136844619

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This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

East Asian Sign Linguistics

East Asian Sign Linguistics
Title East Asian Sign Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Kazumi Matsuoka
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 356
Release 2022-12-05
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 150151024X

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This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, and Tibetan Sign Language. Table of contents Introduction Kazumi Matsuoka, Onno Crasborn and Marie Coppola Part 1: Manuals: Numerals, classifiers, modal verbs Historical relationships between numeral signs in Japanese Sign Language, South Korean Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language Keiko Sagara Phonological processes in complex word formation in Shanghai Sign Language Shengyun Gu Classifiers and gender in Korean Sign Language Ki-Hyun Nam and Kang-Suk Byu Causative alternation in Tianjin Sign Language Jia He and Gladys Tan Epistemic modal verbs and negation in Japanese Sign Language Kazumi Matsuoka, Uiko Yano and Kazumi Maegawa Part 2: Non-manuals and space The Korean Sign Language (KSL) corpus and its first application on a study about mouth actions Sung-Eun Hong, Seong Ok Won, Hyunhwa Lee, Kang-Suk Byun and Eun-Young Lee Negative polar questions in Hong Kong Sign Language Felix Sze and Helen Le Analyzing head nod expressions by L2 learners of Japanese Sign Language: A comparison with native Japanese Sign Language signers Natsuko Shimotani Composite utterances in Taiwan Sign Language Shiou-fen Su Time and timelines in Tibetan Sign Language (TSL) interactions in Lhasa Theresia Hofer

Language Contact and Change in Chinese

Language Contact and Change in Chinese
Title Language Contact and Change in Chinese PDF eBook
Author Guangshun Cao
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 266
Release 2019-08-05
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110612984

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The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.

Social Policy and Change in East Asia

Social Policy and Change in East Asia
Title Social Policy and Change in East Asia PDF eBook
Author James Lee
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 219
Release 2013-12-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0739174576

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Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of the social development approach in various policy contexts. This book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy and planning.

Language Planning and Language Change in Japan

Language Planning and Language Change in Japan
Title Language Planning and Language Change in Japan PDF eBook
Author Tessa Carroll
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 302
Release 2001
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780700713837

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This text highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan against a background of significant socio-cultural, political and economic change, and places them in a comparative context.

Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia

Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia
Title Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia PDF eBook
Author Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
Publisher Routledge
Pages 205
Release 2022-05-17
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1000542289

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Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries. Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, the chapters explore how different individuals and collectivities use semiotic resources in different spaces – schools, airports, streets and shops as well as online platforms – to reinforce or contest existing social structures, bearing strong implications for language maintenance and cultural revitalization, construction of ethnolinguistic and national identities, and socioeconomic mobility. Part I looks into how globalization and its accompanying forces and influences – such as the importance of English in socioeconomic mobility – come into contact with local Asian cultures and languages. Part II examines minority languages, demographically and socio-politically established in the countries, shedding light on the role of LL that plays in both their minorization and revitalization processes. Part III investigates how LL is utilized as a site for constructing identities to pursue socioeconomic, political and cultural goals. It is within this perspective that the presence and salience of English in the LL of the countries along with the use of the Asian languages is analyzed and understood, shedding light on how Asian heritage languages and cultures are preserved and/or certain identities in the times of political unrest or economic development are expressed. This fascinating insight into linguistic landscapes in Asia will be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics anywhere in the world.