The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics (Paperback, 1)

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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

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

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

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

　

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

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

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

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

Index