Edward McDonald
List of John Benjamins publications for which Edward McDonald plays a role.
2021 The signifying voice: Materiality and sociality in language and music Language, Context and Text 3:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
Drawing on a social semiotic framework, this paper sets out to examine two different semiotic systems whose default mode of expression is the human voice – language and music. Through comparing how each system differentially employs the human voice, we can identify both their commonalities and… read more
2018 The “ideograph” and the 漢字 hànzì : A cross-cultural concept with two mutually invisible faces Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:2, pp. 271–292 | Article
In the Anglophone sphere, according to popular and most academic understandings, the term “ideograph” is regarded as an unproblematic synonym of 漢字 hànzì ‘Chinese character.’ On graphological grounds, i.e. as applied to writing systems, it can easily be shown that the concept of “ideograph” is… read more
2017 The challenge of a “lacking” language: The historical development of Chinese grammatics Chinese Language and Discourse 8:2, pp. 244–265 | Article
In the eyes of early modern European scholars, Chinese was commonly regarded as a “lacking” language: lacking its own grammatical tradition or “grammatics”; lacking the complex morphology of the classical European languages; even lacking its own “parts of speech” or word classes. In the late… read more
2004 6. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Chinese Language Typology: A functional perspective, Caffarel-Cayron, Alice, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (eds.), pp. 305–396 | Article
2002 Expression, content and meaning in language and music: An integrated semiotic analysis Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999, Mc Kevitt, Paul, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill (eds.), pp. 205–220 | Article
1996 The Complement in Chinese Grammar: A functional reinterpretation Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice, Hasan, Ruqaiya †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt (eds.), pp. 265–286 | Article
1995 7. On theme in Chinese: from clause to discourse On Subject and Theme: A discourse functional perspective, Hasan, Ruqaiya † and Peter H. Fries (eds.), pp. 235–274 | Article