Analysis of Function Words in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Author: Jin Lixin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: How research in linguistics in China can be combined with teaching Chinese as a second language has recently drawn the attention of most linguists. On one hand, teaching Chinese as a second language can be used to test the value of linguistic theories, and on the other hand, language teaching also imposes requirements on linguistic theories. In many fields of study, applied research has directly or indirectly driven the development of theoretical research. What is theory? Theory is an explanation of the research object. Linguistic theory is an explanation of linguistic phenomena. Therefore, all theories should be concrete and should be able to directly explain specific objects. In other words, theory is problem-solving. The main difference between this book and other related research is that it focuses on comparing words that are close in meaning and grammatical function, examining their usage rules, and using this as the key point of research and breakthrough. That is, by comparing words that are semantically paired, it describes the differences between them, describes the differences in their syntactic distribution, and thus reveals their different syntactic usage conditions.