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  • Perception and Metaphor

    A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese

    by Qin Xiugui, Tie Yi ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    Cognitive linguists believe that metaphors are prevalent in human thought, while metaphorical structures are reflected at the linguistic level. Therefore, analysing extensive language data can aid in revealing the metaphorical mappings of embodied experience with the senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and temperature.This volume seeks to discover the similarities and differences ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Reading in Asian Languages

    Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

    Edited by Kenneth S. Goodman, Shaomei Wang, Mieko Iventosch, Yetta M. Goodman ...
    Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction of meaning which they show is fully applicable to character ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations

    Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign

    by Ersu Ding ...
    Series series Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
    The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across such diverse academic fields as epistemology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign in the conviction that they can ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • The Genetic Code of All Languages; Part-7 (Korean Hangul Alphabets)

    by Moni Kanchan Panda ...
    Korean 'Hangul' alphabets follows the same rule of construction, applicable for all alphabets of other languages, like, English, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, Phoenician, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Bengali, Hindi, Tibetan, Thai and so on. The 'Universal Programming' capability of 'The Genetic Code of All Languages' not only decode all alphabets and numerals of different languages, but also ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Genetic Code of All Languages; Part-7 (Korean Hangul Alphabets)

    by Moni Kanchan Panda ...
    Korean 'Hangul' alphabets follows the same rule of construction, applicable for all alphabets of other languages, like, English, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, Phoenician, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Bengali, Hindi, Tibetan, Thai and so on. The 'Universal Programming' capability of 'The Genetic Code of All Languages' not only decode all alphabets and numerals of different languages, but also ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning

    Edited by Prof. Liming Yu, Dr. Terence Odlin ...
    Series Book 92 - Second Language Acquisition
    When people attempt to learn a new language, the language(s) they already know can help but also hinder their understanding or production of new forms. This phenomenon, known as language transfer, is the focus of this book. The collection offers new theoretical perspectives, some in the empirical studies and some in other chapters, and consists of four sections considering lexical, syntactic, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Bilingual Child

    Early Development and Language Contact

    by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Metaphor

    A Computational Perspective

    by Tony Veale, Ekaterina Shutova, Beata Beigman Klebanov ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
    The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need arises. Metaphor is a pervasive aspect of every genre of text and every register of speech, and is as useful for describing the inner workings of a "black hole" (itself a metaphor) as it is the affairs of the human ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

    by Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic contrast of English and Chinese is more ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese

    by Shengli Feng ...
    It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in Chinese grammar, the intuition is not always rigidly fleshed out theoretically in the area of Chinese morphology. In this book, Shengli Feng applies the theoretical model of prosodic morphology to Chinese morphology ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

    Edited by Sungdai Cho, John Whitman ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise to become the twelfth economic power in the world have boosted the world-wide popularity of Korean language study. The linguistic study of Korean, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and unique socio-historical context, is now a rapidly growing research area. Contributions from internationally renowned ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Routledge Course in Korean Translation

    by Jieun Kiaer ...
    The Routledge Course in Korean Translation brings together for the first time materials dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Korean.This advanced course in Korean translation discusses cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues that arise in the course of Korean-English and English-Korean translation and offers useful tools for dealing with the problems that arise in the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD