20th Century Chinese Social Sciences: Linguistics Volume

Author: Pan Wuyun et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The study of Chinese linguistics and writing systems underwent a historical process of development from non-existence to establishment, growth, and prosperity during the first century 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) Introduces 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) Reviews and analyzes major debates in the field of linguistics in the 20th century, such as language and 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 basis, the nature of Chinese characters, and writing system reform;
(4) Summarizes the linguistic research institutions, academic associations, academic journals, and major reference books that emerged in the 20th century. At the end of the book, there is a chronicle of major events in the development of linguistics in the 20th century.