LINGUIST List 22.824 Fri Feb 18 2011 Books: Applied Ling/Lang Acquisition/Lexicography: Jiao, Kubler, Zhang Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Tara Thomas , 500 Common Chinese Idioms: Jiao, Kubler, Zhang Message 1: 500 Common Chinese Idioms: Jiao, Kubler, Zhang Date: 17-Feb-2011 From: Tara Thomas <tara.thomastaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: 500 Common Chinese Idioms: Jiao, Kubler, Zhang E-mail this message to a friend Title: 500 Common Chinese Idioms Subtitle: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary Published: 2010 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)                 http://www.routledge.com/ Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415776820/ Author: Liwei Jiao Author: Cornelius Kubler Author: Weiguo Zhang Electronic: ISBN: 9780203839140 Pages: 314 Price: U.S. $ 55.95 Electronic: ISBN: 9780203839140 Pages: 314 Price: U.K. £ 29.99 Hardback: ISBN: 9780415598934 Pages: 314 Price: U.K. £ 85.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9780415598934 Pages: 314 Price: U.S. $ 140.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9780415776820 Pages: 314 Price: U.K. £ 29.99 Paperback: ISBN: 9780415776820 Pages: 314 Price: U.S. $ 55.95 Abstract: 500 Common Chinese Idioms is the ideal tool for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Based on large corpora of authentic language data, it presents the 500 most commonly used Chinese idioms or chengyu, along with a variety of synonyms, antonyms and the most common structures, enabling the reader to make educated guesses about the meanings of hundreds of unfamiliar idioms. Key features include: *the idiom in both simplified and traditional characters *a literal English translation and English equivalents *two suitable example sentences, plus explanations and usage notes *a Pinyin index and stroke order index. This practical dictionary is suitable both for class use and independent study and will be of interest to students and teachers of Chinese alike. Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Language Documentation                             Lexicography                             Text/Corpus Linguistics                             Applied Linguistics                             Language Learning Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=53266 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ University of Nebraska Press Page Updated: 18-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.