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As the first volume of a two-volume set that reexamines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.

Chinese language --- Noun. --- Verb.

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This is the first title in the new "Navigating China" series of books written by leading experts in the field of international business and cross-cultural communications. The book unravels the nuances of effective communication in China. It introduces readers to the basics of intercultural communication. It also highlights cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic factors that shape how Chinese people communicate. This essential guide will equip readers with the understanding needed to navigate cultural differences, making their cross-cultural interactions more successful and rewarding. By combining theory and practice, the book presents insights and techniques in inter-cultural communication. How does our language reflect our thoughts? What is the relationship between our culture and communication? How can we overcome cross-cultural boundaries and communicate effectively both in inter-personal or business settings? For anyone doing business in or with China, this book is an essential tool for effective communication.

Intercultural communication. --- Chinese language. --- Intercultural communication --- Chinese language

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The Psychology of Reading reviews what has been learned about skilled reading and dyslexia using research on one of the most important but often overlooked languages and writing systems - Chinese. It provides an overview of the Chinese language and writing systems, discusses what is known about the cognitive and neural processes that support the skilled reading of Chinese, as well as its development and impairment, and describes the computer models that have been developed to understand these topics. It is written in an accessible way to appeal to anyone with an interest in cognitive psychology, language, or education.

Reading, Psychology of. --- Chinese language --- Writing.

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"Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms-the effort to alphabetize and/or simplify the writing system-from the 1890s to the 1980s. During this era, Chinese intellectuals attacked the extant writing system as the main culprit for backwardness and invented dozens of new scripts for Chinese languages. Whereas previous scholarship has examined this subject as an extension of nationalist language reforms, this book argues that Chinese script reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age. Precipitated by telegraphic networks, printing technologies, and industrial, educational, and bureaucratic exigencies for information management, new scripts were reckoned as the primary medium to increase labor efficiency and engineer alternate political futures in China. This information age was truly global in nature, and the book moves beyond the West/China dichotomy to understand its genuine impact. It situates Chinese script reforms within a comparative and integrative framework, and in doing so, demonstrates for the first time that Chinese script engineers were in close dialogue with American behavioral psychologists, Soviet revolutionaries, and Central Asian typographers, who were all experimenting with new scripts for similar purposes of informational efficiency. Engaging with a wide range of Chinese, Russian, and Turkic-language sources, Codes of Modernity brings these experiments together to offer an alternative approach to writing modern Chinese history and ultimately to rethink the shared experiences of a global information age"--

Chinese language --- Reform --- History --- Writing --- Political aspects

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Although cognitive processes are fundamental in shaping the language that we speak, they are often overlooked in language teaching and learning. This groundbreaking book addresses how to use key cognitive linguistic (CL) concepts to analyze the Chinese language and to advance L2 Chinese teaching and learning. It presents an overview of the most prominent CL research published in both Chinese and English and explores how it applies to L1 and L2 Chinese studies. Including sample lesson plans and classroom activities, it demonstrates to language teachers how to use CL-based approaches to explain and teach a wide range of linguistic phenomena to their students. Researchers will also gain new insights from the summaries of recent advances and contrastive analyses between English and Chinese. Covering up-to-date research, yet written in a clear and engaging style, it will foster a new understanding of teaching and learning Chinese.

Chinese language --- Cognitive grammar. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers.