The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies

This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English.

This ＂living reference work＂ offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres.

The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings

Dr Zhengdao Ye is Senior Lecturer at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University, where she is the convenor of the Master of Translation Program, and a NAATI accredited translator. Dr Ye is a graduate in Chinese Linguistics and Literature from East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Australian National University. Her teaching and research interests include Chinese Linguistics, The Language of Emotions, Cross-Cultural Communication; Language, Culture and Translation; Translation Across Languages, Second Language in Use and Introduction to the Study of Language, and she has lectured extensively on these topics in Australia and overseas. She has been invited as a consultant and lecturer among others at Aarhaus University, Copenhagen Business School, Griffith University, La Sapienza University, La Trobe University, Le Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO, EHESS), Roskilde University, Rouen Normandy University, University of New England, Monash University, and the Australian Linguistic Institute at Macquarie University. She is the editor of The Semantics of Nouns (2017) and the co-editor (with Cliff Goddard) of ’Happiness’ and ’Pain’ across Languages and Cultures (2016).