The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics

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.

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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