Schriftfestschrift: Essays on Writing and Language in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday

(Sino-Platonic Papers No. 27)

edited by Victor H. Mair

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Department of Oriental Studies, 1991.

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Contents

  • Tabula Gratulatoria
  • Introduction
    • Victor H. Mair
  • Publications of John DeFrancis
  • Hanzi Bu Tebie Biaoyi
    • Zhang Liqing
  • Typology of Writing Systems
    • Zhou Youguang
  • Dui Hanzi de Jizhong Wujie
    • Yin Binyong
  • The Information Society and Terminology
    • Liu Yongquan
  • A Bilingual Mosaic
    • Einar Haugen
  • The Polysemy of the Term Kokugo
    • S. Robert Ramsey
  • Memorizing Kanji: Lessons from a Pro
    • J. Marshall Unger
  • Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (also available in PDF format) sample chapter
    • David Moser
  • Ethnolinguistic Notes on the Dungan
    • Lisa E. Husmann and William S-Y. Wang
  • Korean Views on Writing Reform
    • Wm. C. Hannas
  • Language Policies and Linguistic Divergence in the Two Koreas
    • Ho-min Sohn
  • Okinawan Writing Systems, Past, Present, and Future
    • Leon A. Serafim
  • Proposal of a Comparative Study of Language Policies and Their Implementation in Singapore, Taiwan, and China (PRC)
    • Robert L. Cheng
  • The Topical Function of Preverbal Locatives and Temporals in Chinese
    • Feng-fu Tsao
  • Yes-No Questions in Taipei and Peking Mandarin
    • Robert M. Sanders
  • Patronizing Uses of the Particle ma: Bureaucratic Chinese Bids for Dominance in Personal Interactions
    • Beverly Hong Fincher
  • Gender and Sexism in Chinese Language and Literature
    • Angela Jung-Palandri
  • A zhezi Anagram Poem of the Song Dynasty
    • John Marney
  • Some Remarks on Differing Correspondences in Old Chinese Assumed to Represent Different Chinese Dialects
    • Nicholas C. Bodman
  • Can Taiwanese Recognize Simplified Characters?
    • John S. Rohsenow
  • Simplified Characters and Their (Un)relatedness
    • Chauncey C. Chu
  • The Teaching of Culture and the Culture of Teaching: Problems, Challenges, and Opportunities in Language Instruction
    • Eugene Eoyang
  • The Culture Component of Language Teaching
    • Kyoko Hijirida
  • Thinking About Prof. John DeFrancis
    • Apollo Wu
  • Wo suo Renshi de De Xiansheng
    • Chih-yu Ho
  • Two Poems for Professor John DeFrancis
    • Richard F. S. Yang
  • Announcement
    • Stephen Fleming