The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics

by Chris Shei (Editor), Saihong Li (Editor)

Overview

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Asian languages should be conceptualized as a whole, the distinct characteristics of each language group, and the relationships and results of interactions between the languages and language families in Asia.

Asia is the largest and the most populous continent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civilizations. This Handbook aims to provide a systematic overview of Asian languages in both theoretical and functional perspectives, optimally combining the two in intercultural settings. In other words, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages.

Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized as an important domain where the various Asian languages interact and shape each other. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367546991
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/28/2022
Pages:	744
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Chris Shei lived in Taiwan until the age of 40 and went on to pursue an MPhil and a PhD at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, respectively. Shei's work with Swansea University started in 2003, consisting of teaching and research in applied linguistics and translation studies. He also edited and co-edited a number of Routledge Handbooks published since 2017 through to the present, including those on Chinese Translation, Chinese Discourse Analysis, Chinese Language Teaching, and Chinese Studies. In addition to the most recent Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, a handbook on mind engineering and an online Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies are currently in preparation.

Saihong Li is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Stirling. Dr. Li has been appointed as a Visiting/Honorary Professor at the University of Strathclyde and at Hainan Normal University. Dr Li also worked as a freelance interpreter and a pharmaceutical business consultant from 1999 to 2012 in China, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Dr. Li has produced a substantial body of research including monographs and refereed journal articles on themes including food culture translation, political discourse translation, and policymaking regarding multilingual education. Her research methods are drawn from the digital humanities and from related fields including corpus linguistics and digital humanities in experimental research. She has also conducted translation and interpreting research by using multimodal technology such as eye-tracking, skin response, heart rate, and face recognition.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

I. Typological and historical linguistics

1. The evolution of syntax in Western Austronesian
2. Tagalog linguistics: Historical development and theoretical trends
3. Typologically rare properties of Miao languages
4. Naish Languages and Dongba/Daba Oral Traditions
5. Motion events in Modern Uyghur narrative discourse

II. Syntactic structures

6. Understanding word-order variations in Asian languages: at the syntax-processing interface
7. Head derivational differences between Chinese and Japanese relative clauses and an L2 acquisition study
8. Inside the DP world: structures, movements, and debates
9. A road map to Vietnamese phrase structure
10. Null anaphora in Vietnamese: pro and argument ellipsis

III. Phonology and morphology

11. Onset Weight and Drift in Austronesian Comparative Phonology
12. Ideophones in Japanese and Korean
13. Indonesian phonology and the evidence from loanword adaptation
14. Tones of Asian languages: A comparative overview of tonology
15. The Korean evidential and mood suffixes

IV. Discourse and pragmatics

16. An interactional linguistic approach to investigating the interplay between language and interaction in Korean and Japanese conversation
17. The metapragmatic speech-style shift in Japanese: From the telling mode to the showing mode
18. Linguistic Politeness in Korean Speech Level and Terms of Address
19. How to say ‘no’ in Korean: Sociopragmatic and Pragmalinguistic analysis of Korean speech acts of refusal
20. Meaning as use: The pragmatics of Vietnamese speech practice

V. Psycholinguistics

21. Effects of spoken and written language on cognition: evidence from Thai and other Asian languages
22. Multifunctionality of Inferential Evidentiality and Its Cognitive Mechanism: The case of ’ai in Saaroa
23. Cross-language perception of Mandarin lexical tones: Comparison of listeners from Burmese, Thai and Vietnamese backgrounds
24. Clinical Linguistics and Research in Language Disorders in Thailand

VI. Sociolinguistics

25. Reclaiming Linguistic Patrimony: the case of Nusalaut, a Moluccan language in The Netherlands
26. Vietnamese heritage language socialisation in Catholic communities
27. Language Ideologies in Vietnam
28. Critical pedagogy meets patriotic education in China: opportunities and possibilities

VII. Corpus linguistics and NLP

29. Corpus linguistics and the languages of Asia
30. A parallel corpus study of referential forms in Japanese and Thai
31. When Poetry and Applied Linguistics Meet: Toward Building a Mora-Based Visual Language of Classical Japanese Poetry
32. A Computational Approach for Corpus-Based Analysis of Translators’ Styles: A Case Study on Three Chinese Translations of The Old Man and the Sea
33. The morphology of Indonesian: Data and quantitative modeling

VIII. Applied linguistics

34. The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Acquisition of Japanese Research
35. Academic Japanese: Challenges, Conundrums, and Myths for Learners and Teachers of Japanese as a Foreign Language
36. Korean L2 learning and teaching: Practices and perspectives
37. Language Attitudes, Country Stereotypes and L2 Motivation: A Focus on ASEAN Languages
38. A functionalist and communicative approach to the translation of Alai into English under the construal mechanism: The case of The Song of King Gesar

Index