Chinese Sentence Groups

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-43986-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Chinese Linguistics

Taking a systematic approach, this book studies the sentence group as an intermediate linguistic unit between the sentence and the paragraph. It covers its definition, characteristics, classifications, construction and segmentation, and its pedagogical and research applications across theoretical and applied linguistics.

The book makes several significant contributions. Firstly, it provides a rigorous definition of the sentence group and identifies six defining characteristics. Secondly, it develops a multidimensional classification system encompassing twelve structural relations, six functional types and the distinction between single-layer and multi-layer. Thirdly, it examines internal and external cohesion between adjacent groups alongside internal and external segmentation procedures. Fourthly, it demonstrates the pedagogical value of sentence groups in grammar-rhetorical instruction, language skill training and logic teaching. Fifthly, it explores the explanatory power of sentence groups in both theoretical and applied research. Finally, it surveys Chinese and international research traditions, revealing a consensus on the need for a unit intermediate between a sentence and a paragraph.

Written for linguists, researchers and students of Chinese grammar, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language pedagogy, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with discourse-level phenomena. It will also benefit language teachers and educators involved in the teaching of first and second languages.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weizhang, Wu

Xiaolin, Tian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What Is a Sentence Group? 2. Classifications of Sentence Groups 3. Construction and Segmentation of Sentence Groups 4. Sentence Groups and Teaching 5. Sentence Groups and Language Research 6. The Current State of Sentence-Group Research

Über Autor(innen)

Wu Weizhang was a professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Communication University of China, and a distinguished linguist dedicated to teaching and research in the Chinese language. Her work spanned Chinese grammar, theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, and broadcast language, with particularly notable contributions to Chinese valency grammar and Chinese sentence group studies.

Tian Xiaolin formerly served as an Honorary Research Fellow at Lingnan University and Director of the Centre for Chinese Language Teaching and Testing. Her research interests encompass pedagogical grammar systems, sentence-group theory, and modern Chinese lexicon, most notably as an early pioneer in the in-depth study of sentence groups in the1980s and the proposer of the new concept of “community words” in 1993.