Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning: Hanzi Pedagogy

by Jinghe Han

Book Overview

This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to mainstream theories of second language learning. Focusing on Chinese Hanzi, a self-sufficient meaning-making system that operates via visual shape and the logic built into its formation, it analyses 'post-lingual' pedagogy. The author examines this 'language beyond language' or linguistic theories, demonstrating that Hanzi is not made up simply of arbitrary signs but is the result of a complete conceptualisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137598395
• ISBN13: 9781137598394
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"