The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics

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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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Part I Typological and historical linguistics 1 The evolution of syntax in Western Austronesian 2 Tagalog linguistics: historical development and theoretical trends 3 Typologically rare properties of Miáo languages 4 Naish languages and Dongba/Daba oral traditions 5 Motion events in Modern Uyghur narrative discourse Part II Syntactic structures 6 Word-order variations in Asian languages: at the syntax-processing interface 7 Structural differences between Chinese and Japanese relative clauses and an L2 acquisition study 8 Inside the DP-world in Asian languages: structures, movements, and debates 9 A road map to Vietnamese phrase structure 10 Null anaphora in Vietnamese: pro and argument ellipsis Part III Phonology and morphology 11 Onset weight and drift in Austronesian comparative phonology 12 Ideophones in Japanese and Korean 13 Indonesian phonology and the evidence from loanword adaptation 14 Tones of Asian languages: A comparative overview of tonology 15 The Korean evidential and mood suffixes Part IV Discourse and pragmatics 16 An interactional linguistic approach to investigating the interplay between language and interaction in Korean and Japanese conversation 17 The metapragmatic speech-style shift in Japanese: from the telling mode to the showing mode 18 Linguistic politeness in Korean: speech levels and terms of address 19 How to say no in Korean: sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic analysis of speech acts of refusal 20 Meaning as use: the pragmatics of Vietnamese speech practice Part V Psycholinguistics 21 Effects of spoken and written language on cognition: evidence from Thai and other Asian languages 22 The versatility of inferential evidentiality: evidence from Saaroa 23 Cross-language perception of Mandarin lexical tones: comparison of listeners from Burmese, Thai and Vietnamese backgrouds 24 Clinical linguistics and relevant research in Thailand Part VI Sociolinguistics 25 Reclaiming linguistic patrimony: the case of Nusalaut, a Moluccan language in the Netherlands 26 Vietnamese heritage language socialization in Catholic communities 27 Language ideologies in Vietnam 28 Critical pedagogy meets patriotic education in China: opportunities and possibilities Part VII Corpus linguistics and NLP 29 Corpus linguistics and the languages of Asia 30 A parallel corpus study of referential forms in Japanese and Thai 31 Taking a preliminary computational look at classical Japanese poetry: mora-based noun/verb ratio in the Hyakunin Isshu corpus 32 A corpus-based computational study on translators’ styles based on three Chinese translations of The Old Man and the Sea 33 The morphology of Indonesian: data and quantitative modeling Part VIII Applied linguistics 34 The past, present, and future of second language acquisition of Japanese research 35 Academic Japanese: challenges and myths for learners of Japanese as a foreign language in the US 36 Korean L2 learning and teaching: practices and perspectives 37 Language attitudes, country stereotypes, and L2 motivation: a focus on ASEAN languages 38 A functionalist and communicative approach to the translation of Alai into English based on the construal mechanism: the case of The Song of King Gesar Index