Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese

Download or read book Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese written by Zheng-Sheng Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based, multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation, it provides a concrete and objective view of the internal variation in written Chinese. This book is a timely work that addresses the growing interest in quantitative genre analysis and how knowledge thus gained can contribute to the teaching as well as understanding of the Chinese language.