The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics

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, the text will provide a reference for researchers of individual Asian languages or language groups against the background of the entire range of Asian languages. Not only does the Handbook act as a reference to a particular language, it also connects each language to other Asian languages in the perspective of the entire Asian continent. Cultural roles and communicative functions of language are also emphasized 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.

Chris Shei lived in Taiwan until the age of 40 and went on to pursue an MPhil and a PhD at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, respectively. Shei's work with Swansea University started in 2003, consisting of teaching and research in applied linguistics and translation studies. He also edited and co-edited a number of Routledge Handbooks published since 2017 through to the present, including those on Chinese Translation, Chinese Discourse Analysis, Chinese Language Teaching, and Chinese Studies. In addition to the most recent Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, a handbook on mind engineering and an online Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies are currently in preparation. Saihong Li isSenior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Stirling. Dr. Li has been appointed as a Visiting/Honorary Professor at the University of Strathclyde and at Hainan Normal University. Dr Li also worked as a freelance interpreter and a pharmaceutical business consultant from 1999 to 2012 in China, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Dr. Li has produced a substantial body of research including monographs and refereed journal articles on themes including food culture translation, political discourse translation, and policymaking regarding multilingual education. Her research methods are drawn from the digital humanities and from related fields including corpus linguistics and digital humanities in experimental research. She has also conducted translation and interpreting research by using multimodal technology such as eye-tracking, skin response, heart rate, and face recognition.

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction I. Typological and historical linguistics - The evolution of syntax in Western Austronesian - Tagalog linguistics: Historical development and theoretical trends - Typologically rare properties of Miao languages - Naish Languages and Dongba/Daba Oral Traditions - Motion events in Modern Uyghur narrative discourse II. Syntactic structures - Understanding word-order variations in Asian languages: at the syntax-processing interface - Head derivational differences between Chinese and Japanese relative clauses and an L2 acquisition study - Inside the DP world: structures, movements, and debates - A road map to Vietnamese phrase structure - Null anaphora in Vietnamese: pro and argument ellipsis III. Phonology and morphology - Onset Weight and Drift in Austronesian Comparative Phonology - Ideophones in Japanese and Korean - Indonesian phonology and the evidence from loanword adaptation - Tones of Asian languages: A comparative overview of tonology - The Korean evidential and mood suffixes IV. Discourse and pragmatics - An interactional linguistic approach to investigating the interplay between language and interaction in Korean and Japanese conversation - The metapragmatic speech-style shift in Japanese: From the telling mode to the showing mode - Linguistic Politeness in Korean Speech Level and Terms of Address - How to say 'no' in Korean: Sociopragmatic and Pragmalinguistic analysis of Korean speech acts of refusal - Meaning as use: The pragmatics of Vietnamese speech practice V. Psycholinguistics - Effects of spoken and written language on cognition: evidence from Thai and other Asian languages - Multifunctionality of Inferential Evidentiality and Its Cognitive Mechanism: The case of 'ai in Saaroa - Cross-language perception of Mandarin lexical tones: Comparison of listeners from Burmese, Thai and Vietnamese backgrounds - Clinical Linguistics and Research in Language Disorders in Thailand VI. Sociolinguistics - Reclaiming Linguistic Patrimony: the case of Nusalaut, a Moluccan language in The Netherlands - Vietnamese heritage language socialisation in Catholic communities - Language Ideologies in Vietnam - Critical pedagogy meets patriotic education in China: opportunities and possibilities VII. Corpus linguistics and NLP - Corpus linguistics and the languages of Asia - A parallel corpus study of referential forms in Japanese and Thai - When Poetry and Applied Linguistics Meet: Toward Building a Mora-Based Visual Language of Classical Japanese Poetry - A Computational Approach for Corpus-Based Analysis of Translators' Styles: A Case Study on Three Chinese Translations of The Old Man and the Sea - The morphology of Indonesian: Data and quantitative modeling VIII. Applied linguistics - The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Acquisition of Japanese Research - Academic Japanese: Challenges, Conundrums, and Myths for Learners and Teachers of Japanese as a Foreign Language - Korean L2 learning and teaching: Practices and perspectives - Language Attitudes, Country Stereotypes and L2 Motivation: A Focus on ASEAN Languages - 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