Chinese Language and Discourse

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2010)

2010. iv, 152 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.1.1

Table of Contents

From the Editors	1
Articles
Conversation, grammar, and fixedness: Adjectives in Mandarin revisited Sandra A. Thompson and Hongyin Tao	3–30
From language structures to language use: A case from Mandarin motion expression classification Liang Chen and Jiansheng Guo	31–65
From positivity to possibility, propriety and necessity: Semantic change in culture Zhuo Jing-Schmidt	66–92
Dialectal and normative registers in Yangzhou storytelling Vibeke Børdahl	94–123
Book Reviews/Notices
Review of Xiao, Rayson & McEnery (2009): A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners Reviewed by Xiaofei Lu	125–129
Review of Law, Weekes & Wong (2009): Language Disorders in Speakers of Chinese Reviewed by Lixian Jin	130–133
Review of Branner (2006): The Chinese rime tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology Reviewed by Zhiming Bao	134–137
Review of Xiao & McEnery (2004): Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study Reviewed by Tao Ming	138–144
Review of Chan (2004): Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory: Modes, Issues and Debates Reviewed by Michael Heim	145–148
Review of Weiping & Zhaolin (2009): Linguistics & Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Reviewed by Ni-Eng Lim	149–150
Review of Tao (2009): Computational Simulation in Evolutionary Linguistics: A Study on Language Emergence Reviewed by Ni-Eng Lim	151–152

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse studies

Sino-Tibetan languages