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Contrastive Linguistics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives by Pan Wenguo (Hardback, 2007)

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Contrastive Linguistics is the first book written by a linguist from mainland China on the histories and principles of comparing and contrasting Chinese and Western languages, specifically English. From Wilhelm von Humboldt's initial study in comparative linguistics to the present day, traditional scholarship in contrastive linguistics has taken a Western perspective and shown how foreign languages relate to the Indo-European language family. However, such a view has a limited scope, and there is an alternative history to contrastive linguistics. This book is an attempt by Professor Wenguo Pan to redress the balance in contrastive linguistics, comparing Western languages to Chinese, rather than vice versa. He provides a survey of contrastive linguistics in China throughout the past century, and aims to open a window for the world to see what the new generations of Chinese linguists are doing in this exciting field, and to start a dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds and linguistic traditions. Contrastive Linguistics looks at the history of this discipline both in Europe and in China. Professor Pan presents a survey of the historical, philosophical and methodological foundations of the discipline, but also examines its scope in relation to general, comparative, anthropological and applied linguistics. This book will be of interest to academics interested in a new perspective on contrastive linguistics or Chinese linguistics.

Publisher
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-10
0826486347
ISBN-13
9780826486349
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95140269

Place of Publication
London
Spine
18mm
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Professor Wenguo Pan is at East China Normal University. He has published widely on contrastive linguistics and translation studies including An Outline of Contrastive Study between Chinese and English (Beijing, 2003: BLCU Press).
Date of Publication
10/05/2007
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Linguistics