Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Academic Chinese

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. From Construction of Meanings to Meaning Design: A Literacy- and Genre-Focused Approach to Academic Chinese

      • Haidan Wang

      Pages 3-24

   3. Teaching Chinese Metadiscourse in University Lectures: The Case of Jiushi (就是)

      • Vincent Yi-Lun Li, Miao-Hsia Chang

      Pages 25-51

   4. How Citation Is Signaled: A Corpus-Based Study on Reporting Verbs in Chinese Academic Papers

      • Rui Liu, Shan Wang

      Pages 53-71

   5. Walking the Garden Path Toward Academic Language: Perspectives from International Students in Chinese Higher Education

      • Yue Peng, Wei Yan

      Pages 73-94

   6. Disfluency in L2 Chinese Academic Oral Presentations and Formulaic Language Instruction

      • Yu Liu

      Pages 95-130

3. Business Chinese

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Developments in Business Chinese Teaching and Research: An Overview and Perspectives

      • Zhongqi Shi, Qiaosi Yuan, Mengsu Kong

      Pages 133-155

   3. Learning Culture in Business Chinese Curriculum: Business Professionals’ Perspectives

      • Hsin-Hsin Cindy Lee, Li-Yu Chen

      Pages 157-166

   4. Designing a Task-Based and Community-Engaged Business Chinese Course

      • Qiaona Yu

      Pages 167-186

4. Chinese for Medicine and Heath Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Chinese Metaphorical Expressions in Talking About the End-of-Life Journey

      • Huei-ling Lai, Yi-chen Chen

      Pages 189-212

   3. Expressing Uncertainty with Conditionals in Medical Discourse: A Comparison Across Genres

      • Wan-Hua Lin

      Pages 213-243

   4. Progressing in Medical Conversations: Overall Organization as a Resource for the Joint Management of Chinese Pediatric Interactions

      • Nan Wang

      Pages 245-265

   5. Needs Analysis for a Chinese Course for Healthcare Professionals

      • Wei Lai

      Pages 267-286

   6. Focusing on Doctor–Patient Conversations: A Curriculum for Medical Chinese

      • Meng Yeh, Liang Fu

      Pages 287-318

5. Chinese for Other Services and Industries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319

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   2. Chinese for Diplomats

      • Cornelius C. Kubler

      Pages 321-353

   3. Mandarin for Wine Tasting: Terminology and a Pedagogical Application

      • Chiara Romagnoli

      Pages 355-372

This book, likely the first of its kind in the English language, explores Chinese for specific and professional purposes (CSP) in terms of theorizing and developing practical applications for language teaching and learning. While research in language for specific purposes is thriving for languages such as English, there has been comparatively little such research conducted for Chinese. This volume attempts to fill the gap by bringing together practitioners from a broad international scholarly community, who share common interests yet diverse orientations. 


Seventeen papers are included, and address four broad thematic categories: (1) academic Chinese, (2) business Chinese, (3) Chinese for medicine and health care, and (4) Chinese for other broadly defined services and industries (diplomacy, tourism, wine-tasting, etc.). Representing the state of the art in CSP research, the book offers an indispensable guide for anyone interested in theoretical and practical issues in this area of applied Chinese language studies.

• Chinese for Specific and Professional Purposes
• Academic Chinese
• Business Chinese
• Chinese language for diplomats
• Chinese language education
• Chinese language and law
• Medical Chinese
• Chinese language and media
• Chinese language and tourism
• Chinese language and the wine industry
• Chinese language in science and engineering
• chinese

• Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Hongyin Tao

• Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

  Howard Hao-Jan Chen

Hongyin Tao is a Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UCLA, he taught at the National University of Singapore and Cornell University. His areas of expertise include Chinese linguistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. His recent books include Working with Spoken Chinese (2011), Chinese under Globalization (co-edited with Jin Liu, 2011), and Integrating Linguistic Research with Chinese Language Teaching and Learning (edited volume, 2016). His research is supported by the US Department of Education. He was the 2014 President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA, is a Distinguished Chair Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, and serves on the editorial boards of more than twenty journals, including Chinese Language and Discourse, the Heritage Language Journal, and Contemporary Chinese Linguistics.


Hao-Jan HowardChen is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chair of the English Department at National Taiwan Normal University. His areas of expertise include computer-assisted language learning, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. He has also served as Director of National Taiwan Normal University’s Mandarin Training Center for four years. He has published extensively on computer-assisted language learning and corpus linguistics. He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Computer Assisted Language Learning, English Teaching and Learning, and the International Journal of Digital Learning Technology. Lastly, he manages the Cool English website, a website for English learning supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, which currently has more than 85,000 registered users.

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