ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Asian languages should be conceptualized as a whole, the distinct characteristics of each language group, and the relationships and results of interactions between the languages and language families in Asia.
Asia is the largest and the most populous continent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civilizations. This Handbook aims to provide a systematic overview of Asian languages in both theoretical and functional perspectives, optimally combining the two in intercultural settings. In other words, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages.
Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized as an important domain where the various Asian languages interact and shape each other. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|101 pages
Typological and historical linguistics
part II|93 pages
Syntactic structures
part III|93 pages
Phonology and morphology
part IV|94 pages
Discourse and pragmatics
chapter 17|18 pages
The Metapragmatic Speech-Style Shift in Japanese
chapter 19|20 pages
How to Say No in Korean
part V|68 pages
Psycholinguistics
chapter 21|13 pages
Effects of Spoken and Written Language on Cognition
chapter 23|15 pages
Cross-Language Perception of Mandarin Lexical Tones
part VI|68 pages
Sociolinguistics
chapter 25|16 pages
Reclaiming Linguistic Patrimony
chapter 28|14 pages
Critical Pedagogy Meets Patriotic Education in China
part VII|106 pages
Corpus linguistics and NLP
chapter 31|17 pages
Taking a Preliminary Computational Look at Classical Japanese Poetry
part VIII|80 pages
Applied linguistics