... in English will be enchanted by the beauty in this volume. University of Minnesota CHUN-JO LIU The Cantonese Speaker's Dictionary. BY ROY T. COWLES. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1965. xvii, 1318 pp. iv, 232 pp. HK $80. This is an exhaustive piece of work. It contains over 133,000 entries...

... the centers of distribution for these language stocks lie outside Indochina, which has received only a trickle of speakers from linguistic spillage across its borders; only one of these stocks (Annamese-Müöng) is an exclusively native product of Indochina. Little is known of most of these languages, and even...

...David M. Knipe Abstract Historians of religion who investigate the myths, rites, and symbols of the multilocal Indo-European speakers are not unlike historians of the planet earth who investigate the dispersed continental land masses and ocean floors of the present time. The former labor...

... to untrained native speakers of the target language or to specialists in other disciplines—particularly literature and theoretical linguistics—who “also teach language” without any relevant training or experience. In order to develop a meaningful relationship between language and area studies...

... identities. In much of developing Asia, therefore, researchers on language history regularly encounter some variant of the same question: what social and historical conditions determine the ways that speakers in multilingual communities resolve problems of language and identity? More specifically, what mix...

... names: simply the Rāmāyaṇ (borrowing the title of the Sanskrit archetype that, for Hindi speakers, it has largely supplanted); the Tulsī Rāmāyaṇ (invoking its author); and also the Mānas (The lake), which is a condensation of its true title, Rāmcaritmānas (The lake of the acts of Rām). Encountering...

... and the notion that translation was a means for the speaker to dominate language as such. However, other practices of translation existed based not on domination but play seen in the classroom and the streets. Popular practices of translation undercut colonial and nationalist ideas about language, providing us...

... is Confucius's pragmatic approach, which emphasizes the intention and purpose of the speaker, and the other is Gongxi Hua's approach, which focuses on the literal meaning of the speech. Examples of each paradigm can be found in the long history of the exegeses of the Analects. Commentaries by two groups...

... sublanguage: Northern Mandarin (330 million speakers); Northwestern Mandarin (80 million speakers); Southwestern Mandarin (190 million speakers); Eastern Mandarin (80 million speak- BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 57.7 ers); Huizhou or Wannan (4 million speakers); Gan (25 million speakers); Xiang (50...

...Brantly Womack Chinese Democracy . By Andrew J. Nathan . New York : Alfred Knopf , 1985 . xiii, 313 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Index. $22.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 57.7 ers); Huizhou or Wannan (4 million speakers...

... and non-native speakers) of Chinese language 114 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES with ways of explaining, learning and teaching accurate Mandarin sound production. The text begins with a description of speech organs and definitions of phonetic terms in general. From section four on, it deals with Mandarin...

... course is designed for students who have had one year of training in the language previously, or who have had the equivalent training in the ASTP program during the war years. Dr. Haas will be assisted by a native speaker, Mr. Sumathapandhu. In addition to the language program, anthropological techniques...

... the conclusion that BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 861 female speakers delete such subjects more frequently than do male speakers. However, as Shibamoto herself notes with respect to John Hinds's work on ellipsis {Ellipsis in Japanese [Alberta: Linguistic Research, 1982 ellipsis is possible only when certain discourse...

... different social relationships with the same speaker. JuckRyoon Hwang has provided a detailed analysis of the Korean system of sociolinguistic variation, a system which has always challenged students of the Korean language, and which continues to vex even native speakers with its complexity and especially...

.... The papers read to the various discussion groups, along with summaries of the resulting discussions, form the content of this book. Although they are understandably of uneven merit, on the whole the quality is high. A strong official flavor permeates the text, as twenty of the speakers were or had been...

... in conversation speaker, addressee, and referent; (2) the system requires careful selections of most linguistic items; (3) speakers may shift levels at any point. These levels in the honorific system reflect the hierarchical structure of the traditional Kotean society. The system, however, is in a process...

... organization, rhetorical strategies, and cultural ideology of the differences between Chinese and English discourse practices, taking as its basis taped recordings of native Chinese speakers speaking English in formal interactional settings. Specifically, Young applies recent research in interactional...

... to which we will return again and again for its wealth of information and its enticing look at a world of “gendered” Japanese that has yet to be fully explored. The next three chapters deal with the speech of gay men (among whom are included a small number of transgender/transsexual speakers). Chapter...

.... To explore Han attitudes, Blum creatively combined participant observation, interviews, surveys, linguistic evaluation tests, and student essays. The linguistic evaluation tests were a form of the classic "matched guise test" where the same speaker records the same utterances several times in different...

... between Chinese and English in marking counterfactuals are thus not merely differences in language but differences in language that in part reflect and in part are responsible for the different ways English speakers and Chinese speakers operate cognitively in the world. Americans, hence, express...