Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Jeon, Mihyon / Ko, Kyoungrok / Kim, Daehee et al., New Generation Korean: Intermediate Level. 198 pp. 2021:11 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <673-2004>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4428-7 paper ¥12,463.- (税込) US$ 59.95 *

Attractive and easy to navigate, New Generation Korean is a full-colour and engaging textbook designed for Korean language learners at the secondary and post-secondary education levels, as well as for independent self-study learners. Building on the content in the beginner textbook, the intermediate volume presents learning goals and best practice lessons developed by professors with extensive Korean language teaching experience. The textbook includes lists of vocabulary, answer keys, Korean script, and English translations and conjugation tables. With classroom-tested lessons, New Generation Korean will guide students to effective and efficient learning of the Korean language and an appreciation of Korean culture. The heavily illustrated textbook is accompanied by a workbook, audio files, and PowerPoint slides. A student workbook is also available.

Jeon, Mihyon / Ko, Kyoungrok / Kim, Daehee et al., New Generation Korean Workbook: Intermediate Level. 198 pp. 2021:11 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <673-2005>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4425-6 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

New Generation Korean Workbook is a student-friendly resource for acquiring intermediate Korean language skills, including reading, writing, and comprehension. It is designed to accompany the textbook, New Generation Korean: Intermediate Level. Each chapter in the workbook includes extensive practice questions with cues that prompt students to either choose, match, or fill in the blanks. Throughout the book, QR codes link to audio clips for listening and comprehension lessons. With guidance in every lesson and self-assessment opportunities, students will build confidence while working through vocabulary, grammar, listening, and writing activities.

Nie, Mao, The Literary Expressions of Chinese Experience. 344 pp. 2021:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <673-2007>
ISBN 978-1-4331-7707-1 hard ¥29,192.- (税込) SFR 116.40

The book consists of a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the Chinese post-1970s writers group, especially the literary xiangjun five young writers and their representative works. It includes a multi-dimensional interpretation of the writing characteristics, narrative law and artistic construction of the "generation in the seam," fully displaying this transformation period of Chinese traditional values. Specifically, in terms of the book’s content and structure, there is (1) a broad vision with the ideological premise of modernity, (2), a high degree of "local" and "globalization," and (3), a demonstration of the importance of China's excellent cultural resources.

Zhou, Chenlei, Zhoutun. (Routledge World Languages) 152 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <673-2009>
ISBN 978-1-032-11317-3 hard ¥14,697.- (税込) GB￡ 51.99 *
ISBN 978-1-032-11318-0 paper ¥6,216.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

This book presents a description of the grammar of Zhoutun, an endangered Sinitic variety spoken by less than 1000 people in the Qinghai Province of northwest China. With vocabulary predominantly from Chinese and Tibetan syntax, Zhoutun is one of the Sinitic varieties most distant from Standard Chinese, with unexpected typological features like, for example, case markers, rigid SOV word order, simplified tonal system, negative copula as a disjunctive coordinator and "locutor-referential pronoun" which is not found in Chinese and in many languages.Zhoutun is also a representative variety of the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area in which Mongolic and Turkic languages coexist with Tibetan and Chinese dialects from a long time. This book also describes the sociolinguistic and sociohistorical contexts of Zhoutun. It should be of interest to specialists and students of language contact, linguistic typology, Chinese dialectology, language geography, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, folklore studies, and preservation of endangered languages.

Kochanska, Agata, Interactive and Interpersonal Meanings of Grammatical Structures: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Selected Direct Directive Constructions in Polish. (Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics 18) 278 pp. 2022:3 (P. Lang, SZ) <673-1984>
ISBN 978-3-631-87282-6 hard ¥14,546.- (税込) SFR 58.00

The study offers an analysis of three grammatical constructions specifically employed in direct performance of directive speech acts in Polish. Constructions of this type have not yet been widely analyzed, as research pertaining to the relation between the grammatical structure of an utterance and its pragmatic effects has focused mainly on indirect speech acts. The study combines a discussion of a wide range of corpus examples with a detailed analysis of hand-picked examples situated in specific contexts. The aim is to show how the grammatical make-up of a construction functions with contextual factors to bring about a range of pragmatic effects pertaining to the speakers’ interaction and their interpersonal relation. The framework of the study is the theory of cognitive grammar.

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Stalph, Juergen / Hijiya-Kirschnereit, I. u. a. (Hrsg.), Grosses japanisch-deutsches Woerterbuch. Bd. 3: O - Z. 2510 S. 2022:3 (Iudicium, GW) <100-5839>
ISBN 978-3-86205-421-3 hard ¥65,441.- (税込) EUR 278.00