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A Study on Language Learning Strategies (LLSs) of University Students in Hong Kong 香港大学生语言学习策略研究

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2013.11(2).1

Kevin Tam

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引用次数: 49

Collocation and Semantic Change-Derivation of Excessive X-si 过量X-si的搭配与语义变化衍生

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2013.11(2).5

Hsiu-Ying Liu

引用次数: 2

Perspectives on Marked Language Choices and Uses in Taiwan 台湾标记语言选择与使用之透视

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2013.11(2).3

Jennifer M. Wei

{"title":"Perspectives on Marked Language Choices and Uses in Taiwan","authors":"Jennifer M. Wei","doi":"10.6519/TJL.2013.11(2).3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6519/TJL.2013.11(2).3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores types of marked language choices and their uses in Taiwan, using examples from both everyday and e-generation online communication where language mixing, crossing, and stylizing are rampant despite the fact that most of the same individuals consider conventionally codified Mandarin, English, and Japanese more prestigious. The paper argues that this kind of hybrid language practice owes much to Taiwan's twice-reformatted national language policies in the 20th century, and to a rapid regime transition from one party dominance to a multi-party society. That is, the historical enforcement of both Japanese and Mandarin helped nation-state development but didn't leave other linguistic varieties with an equal chance for social advancement, modernization, and codification. Indigenous and ingenious, the language choices and uses in question tap into the lack of codification and standardization of non-Mandarin varieties, into the stereotypical features of Taiwanese-accented Mandarin, and into the incongruities of so many phonetic schemes and use of Chinese characters as phonetic symbols to sound out English, Mandarin, and Japanese. The pragmatics goes beyond immediate functional purposes and are used metaphorically to tap into taboos, for example, or to create humor by adopting a marked choice, in real and virtual discourse. By connecting these emerging language features to broader socio-historical changes in Taiwan, we are able to see the coming of age of a new pattern of reappropriating Chinese characters and therefore Chineseness in online communication. It is a development that may help us reflect on the meanings of speaking/writing Chinese in the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":41000,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71326847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On Deriving Argument Externalization Condition 论论证外化条件的推导

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2013-06-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2013.11

吳曉虹

引用次数: 0

THE RECOGNITION OF SPOKEN MONO-MORPHEMIC COMPOUNDS IN CHINESE 汉语口语单语素复合词的识别

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2012-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2012.10(2).2

Yuda Lai, J. Myers

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引用次数: 1

On the Productivity of the Chinese Suffixes−兒−R, −化−Huà and −頭−Tou 论汉语后缀“- - R”、“- -”和“- -”的词性

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2012-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2012.10(2).3

G. Arcodia, Bianca Basciano

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引用次数: 4

PREFERRED ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN MANDARIN CHILD LANGUAGE 普通话儿童语言的首选论点结构

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2012-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2012.10(2).4

黃瓊之

引用次数: 5

NON-TYPICAL MIDDLES IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN * 台湾南部非典型的中部*

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2012-12-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2012.10(2).1

Huei-Ling Lin

引用次数: 0

Investigating the Syntax of Postverbal Modals in Hakka 客家语后语态句法研究

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2012-06-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2012.10(1).2

Zoey Jui-Yi Chung

引用次数: 1

A SOCIO-PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TAIWAN ENGLISH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD ENGLISHES 世界英语视角下台湾英语的社会音系分析

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Taiwan Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2012-06-01 DOI: 10.6519/TJL.2012.10(1).3

James H. Yang

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引用次数: 4