Interactional Problems and Their Resolutions in Natural Discourse in Languages in Taiwan
Edited by Miao-Hsia Chang
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 17:2 (2026) ca. 160 pp.
BIC SubjectsLinguistics/Chinese
Translanguaging and Multimodality
Edited by Qi Zhang
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 15:2 (2024) v, 138 pp.
Lexical semantics towards the big-data era
Edited by Meichun Liu and Chunyu Kit
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 (2023) v, 207 pp.
Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners
Hang Zhang and Lan Zhang
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of Chinese linguistics, including the core components of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, writing system, and social cultural aspects of the language. It also discusses key features of Chinese language acquisition in… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 16] 2022. xx, 283 pp.
Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China
Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu and David C.S. Li
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022) v, 165 pp.
New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Edited by Andrew Simpson
This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chinese… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 272] 2022. vi, 577 pp.
The Joint Production of Conversational Turns
Edited by K.K. Luke and Mei Fang
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 (2021) v, 134 pp.
Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II
Edited by Ni-Eng Lim
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 (2019) v, 175 pp.
Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives
Edited by Yun Xiao and Linda Tsung
This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] 2019. xi, 298 pp.
Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study
Jingxia Lin
This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 11] 2019. xvii, 209 pp.
Conversation Analysis in Chinese
Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 7:2 (2016) v, 166 pp.
Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning
Edited by Hongyin Tao
Linguistic research and language teaching have generally been viewed as two separate types of academic endeavor. While linguists have been preoccupied with pattern finding and theory building, language teachers often encounter issues that are not readily addressed by theoretical linguistic research. read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 7] 2016. xviii, 239 pp.
The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts
Adrian Tien
Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 5] 2015. xv, 303 pp.
Current Trends in Chinese Discourse
Edited by Wei Wang and Linda Tsung
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 5:1 (2014) v, 97 pp.
Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children
Edited by Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin
For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 60] 2014. v, 134 pp.
Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation
Xiaoting Li
One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 3] 2014. xi, 265 pp.
Chinese Grammar at Work
Shuanfan Huang
Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 1] 2013. xii, 458 pp.
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics
Edited by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics showcases recent trends in the co-development of theory and empiricism in Chinese linguistics. The volume tackles a wide range of theoretical and empirical problems in multiple subfields including sociolinguistics, discourse analysis,… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] 2013. ix, 317 pp.