The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts
Adrian Tien
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 5] 2015. xv, 303 pp.
Adrian Tien
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adrian Tien plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Semantics | Semiotics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Articles
2015 Offensive language and sociocultural homogeneity in Singapore: An ethnolinguistic perspective Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics, Peeters, Bert (ed.), pp. 142–168 | Article
Offensive language use in Singapore’s languacultures appears to be underpinned by cultural norms and values embraced by most if not all Singaporeans. Interviews with local informants and perusal of Singapore’s linguistic and cultural resources led to the identification of eight offensive words and… read more
2009 Semantic prime HAPPEN in Mandarin Chinese: In search of a viable exponent Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 356–382 | Article
HAPPEN is a member of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) inventory of primes (cf. Goddard and Wierzbicka (eds) 1994, 2002). Its English exponent ‘happen’ has been popularly expounded as fa1sheng1 in Mandarin Chinese (e.g., Chappell 2002). This article argues that fa1sheng1 is not the correct… read more