Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words

A Lexical and Semantic Analysis

AvAdrian Tien,Lorna Carson

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-29
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:346 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:243
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030634773

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Adrian Tien was Associate Professor in Chinese Studies (Linguistics) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His co-authors, also at Trinity, are Lorna Carson, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, and Ning Jiang, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies.

Innehållsförteckning

1. What Is All the Fuss About?.- 2. An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon.- 3. Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese.- 4. Four Representative Offensive Items from the Chinese Lexicon.- 5. Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects.- 6. Offensive Words in Chinese Cyberspace.- 7. Offensive Language and First Language Acquisition of Chinese.- 8. Offensive Language and Sociocultural Homogeneity in Singapore: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective.- 9. So, What Was All the Fuss About?.