Twentieth-Century Chinese Social Sciences. Linguistics Volume

Author: Pan Wuyun et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Features: The study of Chinese linguistics and writing systems has undergone a historical process of development from non-existence to establishment, from growth to prosperity over the course of the 20th century. This book is divided into four parts to introduce this process:
(1) Introduction: Briefly describes the formation of modern Chinese linguistics at the beginning of the 20th century and its development in subsequent historical periods;
(2) Introduction to the development and achievements of major disciplines in linguistics in the 20th century, covering eight topics: Chinese grammar research, the historical development and synchronic description of phonetics, language survey and description, Chinese lexical semantics research, writing systems research, Chinese rhetoric research, the history of linguistics, and applied linguistics;
(3) Review and analysis of major debates in the field of linguistics in the 20th century, such as language vs. speech, the phylogenetic classification of East Asian languages, the division of Chinese dialects, the characteristics of modern Chinese grammar and the localism perspective in Chinese grammar research, the classification of Chinese parts of speech, Chinese syntactic analysis, whether rhetoric belongs to speech linguistics, the nature of Qieyun and its phonological foundation, the nature of Chinese characters, and writing system reform;
(4) A comprehensive review of the linguistic research institutions, academic associations, academic journals, and major reference works that emerged in the 20th century. At the end of the book, there is a chronology of major events in the development of linguistics in the 20th century.