| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Review of revelant literature -- Chapter 3. Theoretical basis and methodology -- Chapter 4. Categorization of Chinese borrowings -- Chapter 5. Motivation and semantic model of foreign-inspired Chinese terms -- Chapter 6. Sensory perceptual production -- Chapter 7. Metaphorical production -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index. |
| Summary |
This book aims to classify the word production of foreign-inspired Chinese terms (FICT), within the language system of modern Chinese according to principles of cognitive semantics. FICT refers to a group of vocabulary items in Chinese that are formed and motivated by foreign entities or concepts. These words are designated by some foreign words, but no established foreign elements are in fact transferred from the donor language. Cognitive semantics, the approach adopted by this book, is the study of the mind and its relationship with embodied experience and culture. The book establishes a gro. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese language -- Foreign elements.
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Chinese language -- Foreign elements. |
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Chinese language. |
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Chinese language -- Foreign words and phrases.
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Chinese language -- Foreign words and phrases. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Li, Suogui. Foreign-Inspired Chinese Terms : A Cognitive Semantic Approach. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2011 9780773426207 |
| ISBN |
9780773411043 (electronic book) |
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0773411046 (electronic book) |
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