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Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting... more...
The River of Heaven
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 15.95Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven these concepts and pillars lend themselves to an exploration of Haiku, one of the most delicate and interpretive poetic forms in the world. The haiku verse form,... more...
Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2011; US$ 22.95YUFA! A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MANDARIN CHINESE GRAMMAR is a student-friendly pedagogical grammar aimed at beginner to advanced-level learners and ideal for use in the classroom and as an invaluable reference for self-study. more...
Japanese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95The newest edition to the Visual Bilingual Dictionary series, this title will help the international visitor-whether for business or recreational-adsorb essential vocabulary in Japanese. Contents PRELIMS (5PP) ABOUT THE DICTIONARY (2PP) PEOPLE (18PP) Body Face Muscles and skeleton Internal organs Reproduction Family Relationships & Emotions Life... more...
Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 173.00Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They... more...
Cambodian
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 173.00Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of ?Desesperanto? - a language of which one can read a page and understand... more...
Early Child Cantonese
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the... more...
Die Fünf Meister aus Sichuan (Sichuan wu junzi): Die Posthermetischen Lyriker Bai Hua, Zhang Zao, Zhong Ming, Ouyang Jianghe und Zhai Yongming
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 49.59Hauptbeschreibung Die Fünf Meister aus Sichuan, zu der die Dichter Bai Hua (geb. 1956), Zhang Zao (1962-2010), Zhong Ming (geb. 1953), Ouyang Jianghe (geb. 1956) und Zhai Yongming (geb. 1955) gehören, können als eine der wichtigsten Gruppierungen innerhalb der zeitgenössischen chinesischen Lyrik angesehen werden. Sie vereint nicht nur langjährige... more...
Studies in Turkish Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 188.00Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and discourse-based, synchronic and diachronic aspects... more...
A Hundred Verses from Old Japan
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 16.95A Hundred Verses from Old Japan , being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu , was originally collected in the thirteenth century. One of the most popular anthologies of Japanese classical poetry, this collection comprises love poems and "picture poems" describing scenes from nature in tanka form, thumbnail sketches compressed into thirty-one syllables.... more...









