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, this handbook will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian language or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages.

Not only does this handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects the language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian Continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized in this handbook 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.

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Introduction

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 Miao languages

    4. Naish Languages and Dongba/Daba Oral Traditions

    5. Motion events in Modern Uyghur narrative discourse

      6. II. Syntactic structures

    6. Understanding word-order variations in Asian languages: at the syntax-processing interface

    7. Head derivational differences between Chinese and Japanese relative clauses and an L2 acquisition study

    8. Inside the DP world: structures, movements, and debates

    9. A road map to Vietnamese phrase structure

    10. Null anaphora in Vietnamese: pro and argument ellipsis

      11. 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

      16. 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 Level and Terms of Address

    19. How to say ‘no’ in Korean: Sociopragmatic and Pragmalinguistic analysis of Korean speech acts of refusal

    20. Meaning as use: The pragmatics of Vietnamese speech practice

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      V. Psycholinguistics

    21. Effects of spoken and written language on cognition: evidence from Thai and other Asian languages

    22. Multifunctionality of Inferential Evidentiality and Its Cognitive Mechanism: The case of ’ai in Saaroa

    23. Cross-language perception of Mandarin lexical tones: Comparison of listeners from Burmese, Thai and Vietnamese backgrounds

    24. Clinical Linguistics and Research in Language Disorders in Thailand

      25. VI. Sociolinguistics

    25. Reclaiming Linguistic Patrimony: the case of Nusalaut, a Moluccan language in The Netherlands

    26. Vietnamese heritage language socialisation in Catholic communities

    27. Language Ideologies in Vietnam

    28. Critical pedagogy meets patriotic education in China: opportunities and possibilities

      29. 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. When Poetry and Applied Linguistics Meet: Toward Building a Mora-Based Visual Language of Classical Japanese Poetry

    32. A Computational Approach for Corpus-Based Analysis of Translators’ Styles: A Case Study on Three Chinese Translations of The Old Man and the Sea

    33. The morphology of Indonesian: Data and quantitative modeling

      34. VIII. Applied linguistics

    34. The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Acquisition of Japanese Research

    35. Academic Japanese: Challenges, Conundrums, and Myths for Learners and Teachers of Japanese as a Foreign Language

    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 under the construal mechanism: The case of The Song of King Gesar

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