Linguistics China and the world are synchronized

Author: Qian Jun
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The collection is divided into three parts: Preface, Autobiography, and Papers. The Preface and Autobiography concisely and comprehensively evaluate or review Professor Hu Zhuanglin's academic journey. The choice of the author's own narrative form is based on two considerations: first, it aligns with the practice of Western linguistic historiography (e.g., the published three-volume autobiographies of linguists such as First Person Singular), as this form is considered more historically valuable; second, because the editing principle of this collection only includes pure academic papers, the author's own narrative can replace others' similar writings. The collection includes 38 papers, which are divided into 11 sections: Linguistic Methodology (3 papers), Philosophy and Logic of Language (2 papers), Lexicology (4 papers), Pragmatics (4 papers), Discourse Linguistics (6 papers), Cognitive Linguistics (5 papers), Stylistics (2 papers), Contrastive Linguistics (2 papers), Language, Thought, and Culture (4 papers), History of Linguistic Thought (5 papers), and Language Teaching (1 paper). This division is primarily intended to facilitate the understanding of linguistics for both specialists and general enthusiasts. It is only approximate but better than nothing. The order of the 11 sections and the arrangement of papers within each section are not based on importance or significance but rather on considerations such as the first paper, Functionalism and Formalism. Professor Hu Zhuanglin "as a disseminator of Systemic Functional Grammar, was very successful" (as stated in Wang Zongyan's Preface). The work of him and his colleagues (so-called "Australian Gang," a group of scholars who studied under M.A.K. Halliday in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s) is almost universally known. In this context, paying attention to the diversity of functionalism and recognizing the "beginning of dialogue between formalism and functionalism in the international linguistic community" (e.g., the work of Susumu Kuno, Peter Sall, etc.) holds special significance. Similarly, the 38th paper, The Goals and Means of Language Testing, which "provides an overview of the goals and means of major testing methods in the history of language testing" (Wang Zhenya), can also be categorized under the History of Linguistic Thought. However, to highlight language teaching, this paper is listed as a separate section. Emphasizing language teaching from Otto Jespersen to Halliday is also a continuous tradition. The 38 papers in this collection are divided into 11 sections: Linguistic Methodology (3 papers), Philosophy and Logic of Language (2 papers), Lexicology (4 papers),