The Chinese Language: Fact and FantasyUniversity of Hawaii Press, 1986. márc. 1. - 342 oldal "DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley |
Tartalomjegyzék
On Defining Chinese and Language | 37 |
A Sketch of Spoken Chinese | 41 |
Idiolects Dialects Regionalects and Languages | 53 |
Rethinking Chinese Characters | 69 |
Whats in a Name? | 71 |
From Pictographs to What? | 74 |
How Do Chinese Characters Represent Sounds? | 89 |
How Do Chinese Characters Convey Meaning? | 116 |
The Monosyllabic Myth | 175 |
The Indispensability Myth | 187 |
The Successfulness Myth | 202 |
Chinese Language Reform | 219 |
Speech Reform | 221 |
Writing Reform | 238 |
Notes | 287 |
Glossary | 295 |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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Népszerű szakaszok
35. oldal - I think that the scholars who have almost let themselves be drawn into forgetting that Chinese is a spoken language have so exaggerated the influence of Chinese writing that they have, so to say, put the writing in place of the language.
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