Language: reference and general

This book investigates the diachronic change of the tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese, which is known for its synchronic arbitrariness and opacity.

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers, and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to build upon.

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as emigre literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of 'mother-tongue"e; as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language.

This book presents the experiences of Chinese Language researchers in Singapore to Chinese Language researchers and teachers in other countries and regions, such as the USA, the UK and Asia, that are home to a large number of learners, young and old.

Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in further developing their understanding of Chinese society and culture.

Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of Chinese culture.

This book presents key issues in the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language (TCSL or TCFL).

Analyses the current state of minority language policy in Western Europe and provides comprehensive, evidence-based policy recommendations.

This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "e;self-identity"e; and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India.

This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = 'what', na geren = 'which person') in Mandarin Chinese.

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one.

This book conducts a thorough investigation of the variation in tone sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu using quantitative rating experiments.

This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976).

This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China.

This book brings together 13 original research papers that address emerging issues in the assessment of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in five major areas, including standards in CSL assessment; development of CSL tests; assessment of diverse knowledge and skills; computer-supported assessment; and CSL assessment in relation to instruction and teachers' assessment competence.

This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China.

This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.

This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world.

This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers.

This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars on contemporary issues relevant to the practice, pedagogy and institutionalization of the humanities in the three Chinese contexts of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.

The Kam language of China possesses fifteen tones - more than any other language.

This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds.

This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education.

This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called "e;Indradhanush"e; (rainbow) in Hindi.

This book summarizes the results a three-year longitudinal project on Mandarin development among children of Indonesian mothers, the second largest non-Mandarin speaking immigrant group in Taiwan.

This book provides an overview of the linguistic situation in Brunei, including a historical overview and a synopsis of the current education system.

Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation.

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin.

Esta investigación realizada por la escritora Gilda Jiménez, parte de la experiencia personal, que adquirió y desarrolló en las enseñanzas de los cursos de oratoria, en diversos lugares, como planes vacacionales, didácticos.

El texto La vivencia corporal y los lenguajes expresivos en la infancia, aporta una visión integradora de la psicomotricidad en la educación inicial, a partir de fundamentos pedagógicos y aspectos metodológicos, con pautas de orientación dirigidas a los docentes en formación y en ejercicio, padres de familia y a todas aquellas personas que desarrollan su trabajo con la infancia, para involucrarlos en la teoría y la práctica de la educación psicomotriz, incentivando en el niño y la niña las vivencias con miras a descubrir, conocer, estructurar su esquema corporal y potenciar sus lenguajes expresivos.

A nadie asombra que se intente propiciar experiencias de lectura y escritura significativas por su potencial de comunicación y pensamiento, pues lo importante es abrir canales de contacto entre las voces de otros y la propia.

Este libro es una invitación para todos aquellos que quieren o necesitan escribir ensayos.

La obra tiene como objetivo principal comprender cómo se naturaliza y se racionaliza una relación de actividad masculina y de pasividad femenina sin imponerse de manera violenta en una escena local de rock en Bogotá.

Para nadie es un secreto que en la actualidad la lengua española o castellana es después del chino mandarín la más hablada del mundo.

Este libro tiene como propósito convertirse en el taller de trabajo de un estudiante que, en medio de su proceso formativo, ha decidido realizar una investigación cualitativa y quiere saber cómo pre-sentar su informe mediante un artículo académico.

Este estudio aborda temas importantes y muy discutidos en la actualidad (el matoneo, las emociones cotidianas de los niños, la relación hogar-escuela, la construcción de comunidad en el ámbito escolar, etc.

Conocer las herramientas formales que constituyen un buen texto es crucial para todo escritor.

Travelling Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century is about how ideas travel on the waves of cultural transfer.

Sinds het verschijnen in juni 2013 van Noorse auteurs in Nederlandse vertaling 1741-2012.

English summary: English summary: Between 900 and 1500 C.

This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic.