Author: Oreste Vaccari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
漢字の母體
Author: Oreste Vaccari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Pictorial Chinese-Japanese Characters
Author: Oreste Vaccari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The World of Kanji
Author: Alex Adler
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719274135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
A book that offers a logical, well-founded and entertaining solution to the problem of learning a large number of kanji. Learn the 2136 Chinese characters you need to read and write Japanese.... And you won't be able to forget them! Learn the kanji in an orderly and interrelated manner, through thematic stories based on the real etymology of the characters. The World of Kanji is developed as a new learning system: it's straightforward, easy, logical and it reduces the time and effort required for the memorization of individual characters. The book can also be used as a great reference tool for linguistic and etymological queries. The World of Kanji is perfect for the new student of Japanese, it is great for the intermediate student who still struggles with kanji, and it's also excellent for anyone who's curious about the origin of Chinese characters and the correlations that exist between them. You can enjoy TWOK even without being a student of Japanese!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719274135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
A book that offers a logical, well-founded and entertaining solution to the problem of learning a large number of kanji. Learn the 2136 Chinese characters you need to read and write Japanese.... And you won't be able to forget them! Learn the kanji in an orderly and interrelated manner, through thematic stories based on the real etymology of the characters. The World of Kanji is developed as a new learning system: it's straightforward, easy, logical and it reduces the time and effort required for the memorization of individual characters. The book can also be used as a great reference tool for linguistic and etymological queries. The World of Kanji is perfect for the new student of Japanese, it is great for the intermediate student who still struggles with kanji, and it's also excellent for anyone who's curious about the origin of Chinese characters and the correlations that exist between them. You can enjoy TWOK even without being a student of Japanese!
Ideogram
Author: J. Marshall Unger
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827601
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this latest book, J. Marshall Unger exposes the historical, scientific, cultural, and practical flaws accompanying the widespread belief that Chinese characters embody pure, language-less meaning. Whether one is interested in Chinese characters from the standpoint of language, literature, semiotics, psychology, history, cultural studies, or computers, Ideogram contains new ideas and insights that are sure to challenge preconceptions and provoke thought.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827601
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this latest book, J. Marshall Unger exposes the historical, scientific, cultural, and practical flaws accompanying the widespread belief that Chinese characters embody pure, language-less meaning. Whether one is interested in Chinese characters from the standpoint of language, literature, semiotics, psychology, history, cultural studies, or computers, Ideogram contains new ideas and insights that are sure to challenge preconceptions and provoke thought.
The Chinese Language
Author: John DeFrancis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824810689
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824810689
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters Volume 1
Author: Kanji Text Research Group Univ of Tokyo,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462912583
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"This is the best kanji book available today. Designed for beginners with a basic knowledge of Japanese to use in the classroom on for self-study."--Modern Language Journal Everyday tasks like finding a street address or buying a train ticket can be an ordeal in Japan if you don't read kanji-the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters. A group of teachers from the prestigious University of Tokyo have pooled their talents to create 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters in two volumes: a practical way to learn the kanji most frequently used in daily life in Japan. Each lesson helps you master a new group of kanji, using an extremely effective approach that focuses on you, the learner, taking an active part. Introductory Quizzes introduce everyday situations where you encounter kanji. Vocabulary sections help you understand the readings and meanings of the kanji. New Character Charts teach you new kanji systematically—for each character you'll learn its meanings, its basic on-kun readings, its stroke order, common compounds, and derivations. Practice sections help you improve your skills in recognizing and using the kanji. Advanced Placement Exam Practice Questions for each lesson follow the format of the College Boards Japanese Language and Culture examination.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462912583
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"This is the best kanji book available today. Designed for beginners with a basic knowledge of Japanese to use in the classroom on for self-study."--Modern Language Journal Everyday tasks like finding a street address or buying a train ticket can be an ordeal in Japan if you don't read kanji-the system of Japanese writing based on Chinese characters. A group of teachers from the prestigious University of Tokyo have pooled their talents to create 250 Essential Japanese Kanji Characters in two volumes: a practical way to learn the kanji most frequently used in daily life in Japan. Each lesson helps you master a new group of kanji, using an extremely effective approach that focuses on you, the learner, taking an active part. Introductory Quizzes introduce everyday situations where you encounter kanji. Vocabulary sections help you understand the readings and meanings of the kanji. New Character Charts teach you new kanji systematically—for each character you'll learn its meanings, its basic on-kun readings, its stroke order, common compounds, and derivations. Practice sections help you improve your skills in recognizing and using the kanji. Advanced Placement Exam Practice Questions for each lesson follow the format of the College Boards Japanese Language and Culture examination.
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Author: Jing Tsu
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735214743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735214743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System
Author: Michel Paradis
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483288943
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System provides an account and an analysis of cases of dissociation between kana (syllabic) and kanji (ideographic) script in reading and/or writing. Organized into five chapters, this book begins by discussing the aspects of the Japanese writing system relevant to neurolinguistic research. Experimental kanji/kana processing studies and clinical case reports are then presented. This book also explains the clinical dissociations in performance between aspects of the writing system. This book will serve as a model for further studies in which a similarly detailed analysis is attempted of the neurolinguistic structure of other non-Western orthographies.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483288943
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System provides an account and an analysis of cases of dissociation between kana (syllabic) and kanji (ideographic) script in reading and/or writing. Organized into five chapters, this book begins by discussing the aspects of the Japanese writing system relevant to neurolinguistic research. Experimental kanji/kana processing studies and clinical case reports are then presented. This book also explains the clinical dissociations in performance between aspects of the writing system. This book will serve as a model for further studies in which a similarly detailed analysis is attempted of the neurolinguistic structure of other non-Western orthographies.
Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur
Author: Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher: Oriental Book Store
ISBN: 9789576381539
Category : Calligraphy, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Oriental Book Store
ISBN: 9789576381539
Category : Calligraphy, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brush Up Your Japanese
Author: Oreste Vaccari
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434411478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Brush Up Your Japanese is self-described as "The book that gives the finishing touches to one's knowledge of Japanese."
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434411478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Brush Up Your Japanese is self-described as "The book that gives the finishing touches to one's knowledge of Japanese."