{"product_id":"projective-meaning-in-mandarin-chinese-mingya-liu-9783110707748","title":"Projective Meaning in Mandarin Chinese: A Case Study Approach","description":"Multidimensional semantic theory has greatly influenced the semantic and pragmatic research of natural languages in the past few decades, but Chinese-based research in this direction has been very scarce so far.\u003cbr\u003eThis monograph, through five case studies, investigates the distributional, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of adverbs, logical words (negative words and conditional connectives), focus particles, pleonastic negation and classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. It provides new data from Chinese that relate to projective meaning and multidimensional semantic research, and combines formal analyses with corpus-linguistic and experimental methods. The results show that the existing diagnostic tests are not fully applicable for Chinese but need adjustments. Overall, the work shows that multidimensional semantics is a general theory with strong explanatory and predictive power for natural language semantics and pragmatics, and can provide new perspectives for old phenomena. The book provides a Chinese-based example for this purpose, and hopes to have implications for future semantic and pragmatic research on Chinese, other languages or dialects within China, and cross-linguistic comparisons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mingya Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3110707748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783110707748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mingya Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425443987711,"sku":"9783110707748","price":118.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d1fc4fc-faad-457d-a41b-02a5f715fa35.jpg?v=1761539261","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/projective-meaning-in-mandarin-chinese-mingya-liu-9783110707748","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}