"Dimensions Of Variation In Written Chinese | Language & Colloquials

Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation it provides a concrete and objective view of the internal variation in written Chinese. This book is a timely work that addresses the growing interest in quantitative genre analysis and how knowledge thus gained can contribute to the teaching as well as understanding of the Chinese language. Zheng-sheng Zhang is Professor of Chinese at San Diego State University. He has been a long-term editor of the Journal of Chinese Language teachers Association (now known as Chinese as a Second Language) and is a respected researcher in the field of Chinese linguistics. |Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese | Language & Colloquials