The Perception and Acquisition of Chinese Polysemy

Graeme Davis, Karl Bernhardt, Haiyan Liang

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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
25 March 2024

Language acquisition; Semantics

Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics

Polysemous lexical items have multiple senses associated with a single form, and these senses are interrelated. Polysemy is a universal and omnipresent phenomenon, providing a robust tool to convey creatively our ideas and thoughts. As a result, polysemy presents challenges for second language (L2) learners.

Existing studies on the issue of polysemy in language acquisition often rely on researchers’ subjective understandings of the network of meanings around a lexical item or focus on English examples. Yet Chinese lexis exhibits greater polysemy than English and deserves its own examination. This book takes one Chinese polysemous item as an example to explore how native (L1) speakers and L2 learners perceive its multiple senses as well as how these senses are acquired by L2 learners. This book also investigates the predictive strengths of various factors that contribute to the acquisition pattern. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted to achieve these objectives, including methods from cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

By: Haiyan Liang
Series edited by: Graeme Davis, Karl Bernhardt
Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 56
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 411g
ISBN: 9781803742786
ISBN 10: 180374278X
Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 25 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Introduction – A Lexical Network Approach to L2 Vocabulary Acquisition – Understanding Shàng 上 – Perceptions of Shàng Constructions by Chinese L1 Users – The Acquisition Sequence of Shàng Constructions for L2 Learners – Sense Relatedness of Shàng (to Go Up) – Summary and General Discussion.

Haiyan Liang lectures in Chinese as a second language and Chinese–English translation and interpreting in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, where she completed her PhD. Her research interests include applied linguistics, cognitive semantics and translation studies. She is also a professional translator and interpreter.

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