Publications
Publication details [#6203]
Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1982. The gulf between spoken and written language: A case study in Chinese. In Tannen, Deborah F., ed. Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 77–88.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Exploration of the role which the logographic writing system has played in creating the present grammatical and lexical gulf between modern spoken Mandarin and modern written Chinese.