TY - BOOK AU - Jerome L. Packard PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9781433179839 TI - A Social View on the Chinese Language DO - 10.3726/b17610 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059033 N2 - A Social View on the Chinese Language is intended to be a general linguistic introduction to the Chinese language for the general reader and can be used in beginning-level Chinese linguistics courses. It is different from other Chinese linguistics surveys because, in addition to the usual areas of interest (such as the Chinese dialects, the history of the language, the characters and the grammar), it offers a view into linguistic phenomena that are also related to human behavior and society, such as how Chinese children and US college students learn Chinese, how the brain processes Chinese, the genetic origins of Chinese, language disorders and language loss in Chinese, differences in Chinese language use in different social groups, studies of Chinese reading and psycholinguistic aspects of Chinese language use. LA - English ER -