Dimensions of variation in written Chinese. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zheng-sheng Zhang.
• Authors: Zhang, Zheng-sheng
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is style? What is stylistic variation?; 1.2 Stylistic variation in Chinese; 1.3 The scope of the present study; 1.4 Notable findings and characteristics; 1.5 Theoretical and practical implications; 1.6 Chapter guide; 2 Critique of existing literature; 2.1 Narrow focus; 2.2 Conceptual fuzziness; 2.3 Lack of empirical support; 3 Corpora and search tools; 3.1 Brown family corpora; 3.2 Beijing Language and Culture University corpus (BCC); 3.3 Center for Chinese Linguistics corpus, Peking University (CCL) 3.4 Modern Chinese Frequency Dictionary (MCFD)3.5 English corpora; 3.6 Offline concordancers; 4 Features selection, selected features and frequency profiles; 4.1 Feature selection; 4.2 Selected feature frequency profiles; 4.3 English features; 5 Theoretical framework and correspondence analysis; 5.1 Multi-feature, multidimensional framework for register variation; 5.2 Correspondence analysis (CA); 6 Two dimensions of stylistic variation in modern written Chinese; 6.1 Motivating the two dimensions with LCMC; 6.2 Replication with other corpora; 6.3 Independent support from Feng S. L. 6.4 Correspondence Analysis and Factor Analysis compared7 Cross-linguistic comparison with English; 7.1 COCA; 7.2 Biber (1988); 8 Case studies; 8.1 Finer differentiation of classical Chinese elements; 8.2 Mixed compounds; 8.3 Monosyllabic versus disyllabic; 8.4 Morphological; 8.5 (Near) synonyms; 8.6 Classifier/measure words; 8.7 Idioms; 9 Theoretical issues and future directions; 9.1 Chinese in the broader context; 9.2 Contribution to general research on stylistic variation; 9.3 Implications for grammatical analysis; 9.4 Future directions; 10 Practical implications; 10.1 Implications for NLP 10.2 Pedagogical implicationsAppendices; Appendix A: PKU tag set (50 tags total; used for LCMC version 1, UCLA ); Appendix B: Expanded PKU tag set (100 total; used for LCMC version 2, ZCTC ); Appendix C: BCC tag set (40 total); Appendix D: Dimension scores ( LCMC version 2, 50 features); Appendix E: COCA dimension scores; Appendix F: Biber's feature set (67 total); Appendix G: Biber's registers (23 total); Index
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 162 pages)
• Subjects: 495.11/1; Chinese language -- Writing -- Study and teaching; Chinese language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; Chinese language -- Dialects; Chinese language -- Variation; Chinese language -- Dialects; Chinese language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; Chinese language -- Variation; Chinese language -- Writing -- Study and teaching; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317375272; 1317375270
• Related ISBNs: 9781138942530; 1138942537; 9781315673141
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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