01621 a2200325 4500 1351967312 20250317111636.0 250312042017GB eng 9781351967310 Taylor & Francis GBP 42.99 BB 01 eng CJ thema CFG thema CFK thema 2GDC bisac CJ bic CFG bic CFK bic 2GDC bisac FOR000000 bisac LAN000000 bisac 495.10143 bisac Song Jiang Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity 1 Oxford Routledge 20170626 230 p The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity focuses on the semantic structure of Chinese classifiers under the cognitive linguistics framework, and the implications thereof on linguistic relativity and language acquisition. It examines the semantic correlation between a given classifier and its associated nouns. Nouns in Chinese, which are assigned specific classifiers according to their selected characteristics, reflect the process of human categorization. The concrete categories formed by the relationship between nouns and classifiers may serve to explain the conceptual structure of the Chinese language and certain underlying aspects of culture and human cognition. Song Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at university of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. 7154 7154