How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics
| Autor: | Mary S. Erbaugh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Visual Arts and Performing Arts Anaphora (linguistics) 05 social sciences Linguistics Zero (linguistics) 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Empirical research Ambiguous grammar Paradigm shift Theoretical linguistics Mainstream 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology 0305 other medical science Sentence |
| Zdroj: | Chinese Language and Discourse. 10:84-112 |
| ISSN: | 1877-8798 1877-7031 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/cld.00015.erb |
| Popis: | The Chinese language has encouraged the paradigm shift in linguistics away from Chomsky-style sentence-internal rules toward usage-based discourse. Analysts have debated two possibilities: is Chinese an allegedly ‘inferior’ and ambiguous language because it rests on the ‘three zeros’: zero subjects, zero anaphora, and zero tense? Or does Chinese use ‘hidden complexity’ (Bisang 2009) to make reference clear by discourse marking? Chinese pressure points on linguistic theory center on these ‘three zeros’. Zero subjects have influenced a broader research category of topic-centered languages. Zero anaphora influenced reference tracking beyond the sentence. Zero tense expanded understanding of time and aspect. The process of the shift comes from international networks of multilingual scholars of Chinese. They have collaborated to form a critical mass of explicitly comparative, empirical research. Chinese interdisciplinary research has been especially influential in typology, child language, cross-cultural communications, translation and artificial intelligence. Fifty years ago, mainstream conferences, textbooks, books, and journals almost never featured Chinese. Now they routinely do. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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