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Liu, Jennifer – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
Culturally specific compounds in Chinese could be more effectively studied from a cognitive approach, using the underlying idealized cognitive models defined by Lakoff. It is argued that the formation of Chinese compounds are systematically guided by idealized cognitive models and compounds are semantically compositional. (seven references) (LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Structures, Models, Non Roman Scripts

Xie, Tianwei – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
Results of an empirical study of the learners' language of a group of Chinese language students show that topic-controlled deletion is a prominent feature in Chinese that is distinctly different from English and that it may result in English speakers' difficulty in forming Chinese topic chains. (nine references) (LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Non Roman Scripts

Jin, Hong Gang – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
The process of pragmaticization is explored in a study of 46 adult English speakers learning Chinese as their second language. Results suggest that "ba" constructions that manifest certain grammatical features and are structurally dependent will be acquired earlier than those pragmatically controlled and contextually dependent. (12 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Adults, Chinese, Language Acquisition, Language Research