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Conceptual Network in Creative Morphology: The Linguistic Representation of the Quality of Perception in Chinese

Hung, Hsiao-Hsuan (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

Sensory language, the linguistic conveyance of sensory perception and experience, has attracted considerable scholarly interest in linguistics and linguistic anthropology. In particular, recent anthropological research on ...
Gender Labels in Flux: The Role of Women in Gender Discourse in Post-Reform China

Lang, Jun (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

With the boom of networked digital communication, verbal misogyny permeates Chinese social media, reflecting and reinforcing a sexist gender order in society at large. At the same time, a new generation of Chinese women ...
Gender socialization of Chinese children: empirical evidence from school, family, and media

Shi, Hui (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

This dissertation seeks to deepen understanding of language-mediated gender socialization of Chinese children by answering three questions. In the family setting, how do parent-child interactions convey gender norms and ...
The Iconicity of Consonants in Action Words

Peng, Xinjia (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)

Saurssure argues that the relationship between form and meaning in language is arbitrary, but sound symbolism theory argues that there are forms in language that can develop non-arbitrary association with meanings. This ...
Linguistic Innovations in Chinese: Internal and External Factors

Peng, Xinjia (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

This dissertation seeks to deepen understanding towards language change by answering three questions: What is the unit of change? What is the manner of change? What are the factors of change? Three cases of linguistic ...
#MaskOn! #MaskOff! Digital polarization of mask-wearing in the United States during COVID-19

Lang, Jun; Erickson, Wesley W.; Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo (Public Library of Science, 2021-04-28)

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused an unprecedented public health crisis worldwide. Its intense politicization constantly made headlines, especially regarding the use of face masks as a safety precaution. ...
Metaphor in Metamorphosis: Towards Comprehensive Translation of Chinese Figurative Language

Thompson, Katherine (University of Oregon, 2012)

Focusing on the unique challenges of Chinese-to-English translation, this thesis attempts to bridge the gap between practical concerns related to readability and the cognitive structure and functions of metaphor. It explores ...
Migrants in Shanghai: An Analysis of Verbal Pejoration in Weibo

Song, Depei (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

This thesis examines 硬盘Yingpan ‘hard drive,’ a newly created online derogatory code word referring to the migrants in Shanghai against the historical background of discrimination of migrants in Shanghai. Based on corpus ...
Sentence-Final Particles (SFPS): A Usage-Based Constructionist Approach

Zhu, Lin (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

This dissertation adopts the usage-based constructionist approach to investigate three sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese, bei, ne, and a, with the help of British corpus linguistics techniques. The study ...