Bibliograph

Chinese-English contrastive grammar, an introduction, David C.S. Li and Zoe Pei-sui Luk

Type

Label

Chinese-English contrastive grammar, an introduction, David C.S. Li and Zoe Pei-sui Luk

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chinese-English contrastive grammar

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

987756663

Responsibility statement

David C.S. Li and Zoe Pei-sui Luk

Sub title

an introduction

Summary

The main objective of this book is to familiarize the reader with a subset of the learning difficulties and common errors in ESL/EFL pronunciation and lexico-grammatical structures encountered by Chinese learners and users of English in Hong Kong and beyond. It also helps readers understand some of the ways in which the Chinese language has undergone structural change as a result of Europeanization. The book begins with a review of Cantonese-English contrastive phonology, which is followed by a detailed analysis of lexico-grammatical deviations found among Chinese ESL/EFL learners. It concludes with a brief history of the Europeanization of the Chinese language and a discussion of commonly encountered lingua-cultural problems encountered by Chinese users of English in intercultural communication settings

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Conversation Analysis, Error Analysis, and Cross-Linguistic Influence -- 2.Cantonese-English Contrastive Phonology -- 3.Transitivity and Syntactic Structures -- 4.Passive Voice -- 5.Tense and Aspect -- 6.Determiners: Articles and Demonstratives -- 7.Subject-Prominence and Topic-Prominence -- 8.Europeanization: Influence of English on Chinese Grammar -- 9.Being Chinese, Speaking English: Pragmatic Norms and Speaker Identity

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