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Center for East Asian Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Texture of Tongues: Languages and Power in China.
(Frank Cass, 1998)The way speakers and nations use language reflects the power relationships of a society. Mandarin, canonized as the standard language, stands at the pinnacle of a metalinguistic hierarchy which mirrors the vertical basis ... -
The Turkic Stratigraphy of Salar: An Oghuz in Chagatay Clothes?
(Turkic Languages (Harrassowitz Verlag), 1998)The classification of Salar entails several Turkic and non-Turkic layers. Salar was once assigned to the Southeastern branch of the Turkic family (e.g. by Poppe 1953). This article indicates that Salar is firmly of the ... -
Language Contact in Qumul
(Journal of Central Asian Studies, 1998)At the eastern edge of China’s Xinjiang region, Qumul (Hami) has been a major gateway between Central Asia and inner China since at least the first century. This paper examines the effects of sustained language contact ... -
Direct and Indirect Experience in Salar
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2000)Salar rigorously distinguishes direct from indirect experience: if experience is perceived as indirect, utterances must be so marked. The corelation of direct and indirect forms with personal deixis (Givón 1984) in ... -
Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2006)This chapter examines central ethical, legal, and practical responsibilities of linguists and ethnographers in fieldwork-based projects. These issues span all research phases, from planning to fieldwork to dissemination. ... -
Historische Fragen zur Ethnogenese der Salaren
(Harrassowitz, 2006)Die Salaren, die zu Chinas offiziell anerkannten nationalen Minderheiten gehören, sind ein türkisches Volk, das vermutlich im 13. Jahrhundert als ein Teil des dschingisidischen Heeres ostwärts aus der Nähe Samarkands ins ... -
Syncretism in Salar Love Songs
(Ergon, 2007)Having melded Oghuz-Turkic, Tibetan, and Northwest Chinese linguistic and cultural elements, the Salars might be expected to show an equal degree of syncretism in their love songs. Indeed, they have hung on to a nearly ... -
Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor
(Benjamins, 2008)As the result of language contact in the northern Tibetan region, one variety of the Mongolic language Monguor (ISO 639-3: MJG) realizes prosodic accent as a rising pitch contour. Furthermore, a small number of homophones ... -
Models of Successful Cooperation
(Benjamins, 2010-09)This chapter uses case studies to develop a model of productive collaborative research. In contrast to the privileged position academician-researchers may accord themselves, true collaborations recognize full agency in all ... -
Bridal Laments in the Turkic World: A Casualty of Modernity?
(Ergon, 2008)The repertoire of symbolic practices for familial discord and death—as opposed to spontaneous outbursts of emotion in these contexts— have become ever more limited. The suppression of ritual lamenting can be viewed as a ... -
Uprooted and replanted: recontextualizing a genre.
(2011-01-26)Decontextualized cultural material presents an interpretive challenge. A list of proverbs gives no indication of the range of social purposes for which speakers deploy them, nor how the proverbs came about. Such proverbs ... -
Review of Li and Luckert 1994. Mythology Folklore of the Hui, a Muslim Chinese People.
(China Review International, 1995)This review article critiques the primordialist and atemporal approach to ethnicity and folklore, specifically in the context of the Sinophone Muslim Huis. -
Intimacy for Sale: Masculinity, Entrepreneurship, and Commodity Self in Japan's Neoliberal Situation
(Japanese Studies, 2010-09)This article examines the creation of entrepreneurial male subjects in Japan's host clubs. Based on my ethnographic study, I argue that hosts' entrepreneurship is constituted by commodifying themselves. This paradoxical - ... -
Salar and Sarïgh Yoghur (Yellow Uyghur) dictionaries published in China
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995)The article reviews the state of the art ca. 1994 pedagogical grammars and bilingual dictionaries for the two Turkic languages of China. -
Altaic Elements in the Línxià dialect [of NW Chinese]: Contact-induced Change on the Yellow River Plateau / 臨夏方言的阿爾台語成分: 黃河高原的語言交叉及其變化
(Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1992)Language contact between the Han and non-Han languages of China have often been assumed to be unidirectional and generally limited to the lexicon, while morphosyntactic interference on dominant languages is assumed to be ... -
Materials for the study of Modern Uyghur published in China
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994)This short review article describes the state of the art ca. 1994 in Uyghur language learning materials and references. -
Cultural Values in Chinese Children's Animation: A Content Analysis of The Legend of Nezha
(American Chinese Media Research Association and Communication Studies Institute of Zhejiang University, 2008)This study examined the dominant cultural value themes in The Legend of Nezha, a 52-episode Chinese award winning television animation series for children. Two contextual factors, the image and sex of the characters who ... -
Chinese older, middle-aged, and young participants' stereotypes of young adults
(Baywood Publishing Company, 2006)This study examined stereotype traits of Chinese young adults generated by 180 older, middle-aged, and young Chinese participants. Trait lists were compared across age groups and to Western traits reported in earlier ... -
Cultural values presented in U.S. television commercials featuring older adults
(Baywood Publishing Company, 2004)This study examined commercials (N = 341) featuring older adult(s) shown on four U.S. TV networks (i.e., ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX) to uncover the dominant value themes. Seven value themes (Cheng & Schweitzer, 1996; Mueller, ... -
Stereotype traits of older adults generated by young, middle-aged, and older Chinese participants
(Baywood Publishing Company, 2002)This study examined stereotype traits of older adults elicited from 40 young (M age = 19.6), 40 middle-aged (M = 36.8), and 40 older Chinese adults (M = 64.7). Trait lists were compared across age groups and to traits ...
