The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language.

It examines how Chinese language is used in different contexts, and how the use of Chinese language affects culture, society, expression of self and persuasion of others; as well as how neurophysiological aspects of language disorder affect how we function and how the advance of technology changes the way the Chinese language is used and perceived. The Handbook concentrates on the cultural, societal and communicative characteristics of the Chinese language environment.

Focusing on language use in action, in context and in vivo, this book intends to lay empirical grounds for collaboration and synergy among different fields.

Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities; and a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. He led the construction of language resources such as CKIP Lexicon, Sinica Corpus, Sinica Treebank, Sinica BOW, Chinese WordNet, and Hantology. His upcoming books include Computational Processing of the Chinese Language, Digital Humanities: Bridging the Divide, and Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics.

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. She is a broadly trained linguist who researches the interface of language structure, discourse pragmatics, emotion in language, gender and society, and Chinese second language acquisition. Her work transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and she publishes in three languages - English, Chinese, and German. She is Executive Editor of Chinese Language and Discourse and is on the editorial board of Chinese as a Second Language.

Barbara Meisterernst studied Sinology, Germanic Languages and General Linguistics at Münster University, where she received her PhD. She holds a habilitation (second PhD) from Hamburg University. She researched and taught in Paris, Ghent, Berlin and Hamburg. Presently she teaches Historical Chinese Linguistics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.