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The Europeanization of Modern Written Chinese - The Case Study of the Changing Third Person Pronouns in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Paperback, New edition)
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The Europeanization of Modern Written Chinese - The Case Study of the Changing Third Person Pronouns in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes, 325
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This research focuses on the historical study of the third person
pronouns ta and tamen in the past 100 years' history of Modern
Written Chinese. Since the replacement of wenyan (classical
literary Chinese) by baihua (written vernacular Chinese) as the
basis of Modern Written Chinese after the May Fourth Movement in
1919, it has been widely claimed that Modern Written Chinese has
undergone enormous changes, and that a major influence of such
changes has been foreign languages. The evolution of the generic ta
() into the masculine ta () and tamen (), the feminine ta () and
tamen (), and the neuter ta (/) and tamen (/), is recognized to be
due to a process of Europeanization of the Chinese language through
translation. The primary goal of this study is to establish the
development of the third person pronouns ta and tamen from the
beginning of the 20th century up to the present. The second goal is
to examine the role of 'Europeanization' in these changes to the
pronouns and the general development of Modern Chinese. Three
periods from the beginning and middle of the 20th century
(1904-1919, 1952-1953), and the beginning of 21st century
(2002-2003) are selected for examination. Changes to the anaphoric
pronouns in three grammatical areas, namely gender, number and
syntactic function, are investigated based on the indigenous
Chinese text and the translated Chinese text, of which the latter
represents the Europeanized influence. This analysis is also
indicative of the general trend in foreign influence on the Chinese
language over the past 100 years.
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