Higher education in China since the revolution has reflected the changes that have transformed the country as a whole. A historical review is presented. (LBH)

A study examined a form of other-initiated repair which occurs later than next turn, a form which is produced by nonnative speakers of English whose native language is Mandarin. Data consists of transcriptions of naturally occurring conversations from 12 native speaker-nonnative speaker (NS-NNS) dyads, friends who ordinarily chat. Conversational…

This paper explores the different ways in which Chinese American, Japanese American, Korean American, African American, and European American cultures value and use silence during conversation--the term "silence" is used broadly to denote limited oral speech verbal messages or the usage of fewer words to express feelings, ideas, and…

A study applied an ethnography of speaking to the study of a bilingual child, with the construct of a frame as the unit of analysis. The child was observed and tape recorded playing a commercial game in Chinese with her mother and in English with her father. Both activity frames and conceptual frames were analyzed toward answering: (1) what frames…

This paper analyzes the impact of harmony on Chinese conflict management and resolution. It explicates the philosophical foundation of harmony based on Chinese culture, and offers guidelines for Chinese conflict behaviors. Differences between Chinese conflict resolution styles and those of Western societies are also discussed. The paper then…

An examination of trends in mental hospital commitments among the Chinese in California over the past 100 years indicates a two-fold increase for the general population compared to a seven-fold increase among the Chinese; rates of increase within the Chinese population were not uniform; changes also occurred in patterns of diagnosis. (Author/JM)

Revised and enlarged version of a paper given at the Fifth Sino-Tibetan Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1972, entitled "Old Chinese S- Clusters, Some Dialect Alternations and Traces of the Sino-Tibetan S- Causative." (DD)

Expanded version of a paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri, December 28, 1971; research supported by a grant from the Graduate School, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. (DD)

Presented at "Translation 73," a conference on the present state of literary translation, Columbia University, March 30, 1973. (DD)

The see-saw pair is a technique for perceptually contrasting the two realizations of the third tone, viz. the low-level half third and the low dip full third. (DD)

A ba'' (Third Tone) sentence in Mandarin Chinese is typically described as one in which the direct object has been moved from normal post-verb position to pre-verb position and is preceded by the morpheme ba.'' (RS)

Revised version of a paper delivered at the 5th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistic Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-21, 1972. Assistance provided through a Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, and the Phonology Laboratory at Berkeley (supported in part by a National Science…

Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistic Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-21, 1972. Work supported in part by the Research Board of the Graduate College and by the Center for Asian Studies, both at the University of Illinois. (VM)