Twentieth-Century Chinese Social Sciences (Linguistics Volume) -- Dongfang Academic Library

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 over the century in the 20th century. This book is divided into four parts to introduce this process:
(1) Introduction: Briefly describes the formation of modern Chinese linguistics in the early 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, historical development and synchronic description of phonetics, language survey and description, Chinese lexical meaning research, writing system studies, 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 and speech, phylogenetic classification of East Asian languages, regionalization of Chinese dialects, characteristics of modern Chinese grammar and the localism perspective in Chinese grammar research, 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) A summary of 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.