Mary S Erbaugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 729146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary S Erbaugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary S |
| FAMILY NAME | Erbaugh |
| SIGNATURE | ERBAUGH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics: Pressure from ‘the three zeros’
The Chinese language has encouraged the paradigm shift in linguistics away from Chomsky-style sentence-internal rules toward usage-based discourse. Analysts have debated two possibilities: is Chinese an allegedly ‘inferior’ and ambiguous language because it rests on the ‘three zeros’: zero subjects, zero anaphora, and zero tense? Or does Chinese use ‘hidden complexity’ ( Bisang 2009 ) to make reference clear by discourse marking? Chinese pressure…
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
China Expands Its Courtesy: Saying "Hello" to Strangers
Courtesy reveals fundamental judgments about who merits respect. Traditional Chinese courtesy rests on lifelong hierarchical bonds that are too clear to require constant verbal reinforcement. But strangers, women, peasants, migrant workers, and others often do not merit face work because they lack status, fall outside the network of insiders, or are politically taboo. Until very recently, European-style equivalents of “hello,” “please,” “thanks,”…
Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms. The main, default pattern of interpretation is deictic. The pragmatic principles are the bounded event constraint, the simplicity principle o…
China off center: Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic repor…
Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future
Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city where international communication is a fact of everyday life. has thus always been essential in bridging the social and cultural gap between Chinese and Western civilizations. Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future assesses the role played by this academic discipline at different historical periods and articulates the issues that confront its future development. This is one of the most complete if not …
The Power of Words: Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-1995
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
This edition has been replaced by a new edition and is no longer available for purchase. Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population. They use a variety of unique and fascinating writing systems: logographic Chinese c…
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand
Southern Chinese dialects as a medium for reconciliation within Greater China
Southern Chinese dialects - Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Hakka - have received little official support from the governments of the nations where Chinese is spoken; they are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, and are often deeply stigmatized. Although China's language wars have paralleled cold war hostilities, unofficial forces in the 1990s are rapidly enhancing dialect prestige, as an economic boom increasingly links the "Greater China" of the…
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
Few China scholars or Chinese citizens know one of the most basic facts about Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo or many other modern leaders: they are all Hakka. Most popular and official histories, in China and abroad, ignore this basic ethnic bond. The title of this article is used ironically, in deliberate parody of the genuine Secret History of the Mongols . The subtitle points toward an ironic but serious effort to illumi…
Taking Advantage of China's Literary Tradition in Teaching Chinese Students
The 1989 Democracy Movement in Fujian and its Aftermath
Zhōngguó dà bǎikē quánshū: Yǔyán wénzì [The Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Languages and Writing Systems]
Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms. The main, default pattern of interpretation is deictic. The pragmatic principles are the bounded event constraint, the simplicity principle o…
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
This edition has been replaced by a new edition and is no longer available for purchase. Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population. They use a variety of unique and fascinating writing systems: logographic Chinese c…
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
Few China scholars or Chinese citizens know one of the most basic facts about Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo or many other modern leaders: they are all Hakka. Most popular and official histories, in China and abroad, ignore this basic ethnic bond. The title of this article is used ironically, in deliberate parody of the genuine Secret History of the Mongols . The subtitle points toward an ironic but serious effort to illumi…
Southern Chinese dialects as a medium for reconciliation within Greater China
Southern Chinese dialects - Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Hakka - have received little official support from the governments of the nations where Chinese is spoken; they are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, and are often deeply stigmatized. Although China's language wars have paralleled cold war hostilities, unofficial forces in the 1990s are rapidly enhancing dialect prestige, as an economic boom increasingly links the "Greater China" of the…
China Expands Its Courtesy: Saying "Hello" to Strangers
Courtesy reveals fundamental judgments about who merits respect. Traditional Chinese courtesy rests on lifelong hierarchical bonds that are too clear to require constant verbal reinforcement. But strangers, women, peasants, migrant workers, and others often do not merit face work because they lack status, fall outside the network of insiders, or are politically taboo. Until very recently, European-style equivalents of “hello,” “please,” “thanks,”…
Taking Advantage of China's Literary Tradition in Teaching Chinese Students
The 1989 Democracy Movement in Fujian and its Aftermath
Zhōngguó dà bǎikē quánshū: Yǔyán wénzì [The Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Languages and Writing Systems]
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
Few China scholars or Chinese citizens know one of the most basic facts about Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo or many other modern leaders: they are all Hakka. Most popular and official histories, in China and abroad, ignore this basic ethnic bond. The title of this article is used ironically, in deliberate parody of the genuine Secret History of the Mongols . The subtitle points toward an ironic but serious effort to illumi…
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand
Southern Chinese dialects as a medium for reconciliation within Greater China
Southern Chinese dialects - Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Hakka - have received little official support from the governments of the nations where Chinese is spoken; they are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, and are often deeply stigmatized. Although China's language wars have paralleled cold war hostilities, unofficial forces in the 1990s are rapidly enhancing dialect prestige, as an economic boom increasingly links the "Greater China" of the…
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
This edition has been replaced by a new edition and is no longer available for purchase. Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population. They use a variety of unique and fascinating writing systems: logographic Chinese c…
The Power of Words: Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-1995
China off center: Mapping the margins of the middle kingdom
China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be understood as a complex, decentralized place, where the view from above (Beijing) and from tourist buses is a skewed one. Instead of generalizing about China, it demonstrates that this diverse national terrain is better conceived as it is experienced by Chinese, as a set of many Chinas. To that end, this anthology of interpretive essays and ethnographic repor…
Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future
Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city where international communication is a fact of everyday life. has thus always been essential in bridging the social and cultural gap between Chinese and Western civilizations. Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future assesses the role played by this academic discipline at different historical periods and articulates the issues that confront its future development. This is one of the most complete if not …
Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type give information in the absence of explicit temporal forms. The main, default pattern of interpretation is deictic. The pragmatic principles are the bounded event constraint, the simplicity principle o…
China Expands Its Courtesy: Saying "Hello" to Strangers
Courtesy reveals fundamental judgments about who merits respect. Traditional Chinese courtesy rests on lifelong hierarchical bonds that are too clear to require constant verbal reinforcement. But strangers, women, peasants, migrant workers, and others often do not merit face work because they lack status, fall outside the network of insiders, or are politically taboo. Until very recently, European-style equivalents of “hello,” “please,” “thanks,”…
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
How the Chinese language encourages the paradigm shift toward discourse in linguistics: Pressure from ‘the three zeros’
The Chinese language has encouraged the paradigm shift in linguistics away from Chomsky-style sentence-internal rules toward usage-based discourse. Analysts have debated two possibilities: is Chinese an allegedly ‘inferior’ and ambiguous language because it rests on the ‘three zeros’: zero subjects, zero anaphora, and zero tense? Or does Chinese use ‘hidden complexity’ ( Bisang 2009 ) to make reference clear by discourse marking? Chinese pressure…
History (8 works) · China (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works)