Mariarosaria Gianninoto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mariarosaria Gianninoto plays a role.
2023 Chapter 9. Describing and learning the Chinese languages: Innovation in Western language pedagogical tools of the late Ming and late Qing periods Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives, Smith, Richard and Tim Giesler (eds.), pp. 164–179 | Chapter
The first works on Chinese languages destined for Western learners were compiled at the end of the 16th century, but it was not until the 19th century that such works were compiled in significant numbers. In these works, Western categories and paradigms were largely adopted and adapted. However,… read more
2022 The Adaptation of Western and Chinese Categories to the Description of Manchu Historiographia Linguistica 49:1, pp. 102–132 | Article
Frequent contacts between European countries and China during the Qing period kindled interest in the languages spoken in the Qing empire and led to the publication of numerous Western books on Chinese varieties but also on the Manchu language. To describe the features of these distant… read more
2014 Western grammars of the Chinese language in the 18th and 19th centuries: Studies on ‘cenemes’ and word formation History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011, Kasevich, Vadim, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot (eds.), pp. 53–61 | Article
The development of studies on Chinese grammar was an important innovation of European sinology, as the systematic descriptions of the language were scarcely represented in native tradition. The genre of bilingual grammars involved adapting the methodologies elaborated for Western languages to… read more
2014 Translation in Chinese Grammars: Bilingual works by Western missionaries, diplomats and academics in the 18th and 19th centuries Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V: Translation theories and practices, Zwartjes, Otto, Klaus Zimmermann and Martina Schrader-Kniffki (eds.), pp. 231–250 | Article