TITLE:
Chinese Linguistics: An Introduction
AUTHORS:
Wei Wang, Jianming Wu
KEYWORDS:
Chinese Linguistics, Hot Topics, Chinese-Western Comparison
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.13 No.4,
August
8,
2023
ABSTRACT: What exactly does Chinese linguistics study? What topics, theories, developments and innovations begin to attract the attention of western scholars and have reached the general consensus of Chinese and western scholars or are still controversial constitute the core content of books introducing Chinese linguistics. Chinese Linguistics: An Introduction, from diachronic and synchronic perspectives, combined with typology and sociolinguistics, can provide an accurate and complete overview of the Chinese academic level in the 2020s. They put forward many valuable new opinions, like “metacompound”, “new judgment methods for Chinese derivation and semi-words”, “non-isolated characteristics of Chinese dialects” and so on. This paper will first introduce each chapter of the book, and then review each aspect of it. The application value of this book is of great significance to the future direction of Chinese linguistics.