The Chinese language. Fact and Fantasy
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- 12 ore di lettura
Describes some of the concepts underlying the Chinese language and writing system, and gives the author's position on a number of ideas about the language.






Describes some of the concepts underlying the Chinese language and writing system, and gives the author's position on a number of ideas about the language.
This text presents dialogues on everyday topics together with analysis of anticipated points of difficulty for the student and numerous sentences illustrating the usage of all new words and grammar. "Intermediate Chinese" has a number of unique features, chief among them is that the dialogues were first recorded and then transcribed and edited. This has resulted in livelier conversational material than is generally found in textbooks.
In this parallel character version of Intermediate Chinese , dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building exercises, substitution drills and memorization exercises correspond to the same lessons Intermediate Chinese offers in English and in pinyin romanization of Mandarin.Published for Seton Hall University
Accompanying coursebooks edited by Erin Quirk and Tanying Dong. Includes Essential Chinese (250 p.), Intermediate Chinese (362 p.), Advanced Chinese (300 p.), and Complete guide to Chinese characters (83 p.).
Originally published in 1937, this book presents a study regarding the development of language, composition and style in English prose.
Diese Einführung in die chinesische Sprache und Schrift des amerikanischen Linguisten und Sinologen John DeFrancis (1911-2009) ist die deutsche Übersetzung seines 1984 erschienen Buches „The Chinese Language - Fact and Fantasy“. Sie befasst sich in populärwisschenschaftlicher Weise mit der chinesischen Sprache und Schrift, insbesondere dem Aufbau und der Funktionsweise chinesischer Schriftzeichen. DeFrancis widerlegt überzeugend verbreitete Vorurteile, z. B. dass die chinesische Schrift ideographisch sei. Er gibt außerdem einen historischen Überblick über Versuche, die Schrift durch Einführung verschiedener alphabetischer Transkriptionssysteme zu reformieren.