Overview
Is the first book contrasting the segmentation and representation of motion events in English and Chinese
Serves as the first book adopting the theory of the macro-event property to analyze Chinese motion events
Offers sound, corpus-based analyses of the differences and similarities between English and Chinese motion events
Provides cross-linguistic evidence to support the typological classification of English and Chinese in terms of motion event representation
Puts forward suggestions for further improving the theory of the macro-event property
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About the author
His research over the past 20 years has been devoted to the area of English and Chinese contrastive analysis, and he has published nearly 20 research articles and reviews in journals both within China and abroad. Over the past 10 ten years, he has narrowed his research focus to English and Chinese motion events, establishing himself as one of the most productive researchers in this field. Over the years, he has won many prestigious teaching awards and research funds, e.g. a Nomination for Best Supervisor Team ECUST, 1st Prize for Excellent Teaching and Education ECUST, Model Teacher ECUST, National Social Science Foundation (17XJY003) and Shanghai Education Commission Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse
Book Subtitle: A Contrastive Study
Authors: Guofeng Zheng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4037-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4036-7Published: 02 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4039-8Published: 03 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4037-4Published: 01 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 190
Number of Illustrations: 108 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Linguistics, general, Comparative Linguistics, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics