Asia's Orthographic Dilemma

Index

331 Index Agglutinative language, 27, 49 Akkadian, 10 All-hangul, 46, 64–66, 69, 127, 137, 185, 219–221, 249, 279 All-kana, 41, 43, 249 Alphabet: and computers, 260–263, 267– 270, 274–276; early Japanese awareness of, 39; indexing, 281– 282; and literacy, 126; origins, 9– 11; and phonemes, 138, 243, 279. See also Reading, of alphabetic scripts Altaic, 8, 27, 49 American Education Delegation to Japan, 44 Amirova, T. A., 237, 243, 311–312 Ao Xiaoping, 182, 265 Aphasia, 157, 171 Arai Hakuseki, 39 Areal tendencies, 76 Arimitsu Jiro, 44 Ateji, 31, 114–115 Bactrian, 301 Báihuà , 46, 212, 248, 301 Banks, William P., 160, 164, 309 Bao Qi, 311 Becker, Joseph D., 269–270, 273 Berry, Jack, 164 Biggerstaff, Knight, 131 Blank, Lenore Kim, 55, 60 Bloomfield, Leonard, 232, 235–236, 312. See also Structuralism Bolinger, Dwight, 120, 236 Boodberg, Peter, 16, 18, 247, 301 Borrowing: Chinese into Japanese, 27, 35– 38, 96, 183, 289–290; Chinese into Korean, 49, 51, 56, 65, 76, 126, 183, 289–290; Chinese into Vietnamese , 73, 77–81, 85–86, 89, 183, 289–290, 305; English into Japanese , 40, 190, 216–217, 256–257; English into Korean, 190, 304; foreign into Chinese, 8, 115–116, 190, 202, 217, 254–256; Latin into English, 40; Western into East Asian, 229, 256, 291 Braille, 41 Brain hemispheres, 153, 167–171, 294 Broca’s Area, 310 Brooks, Lee, 159 Buddhism, 78, 247, 301, 303 Burani, Cristina, 159 Callery, J. M., 142 Cang Jie, 12 Cantonese, 7–8, 76, 116, 118, 191–193, 196, 198, 200 Cæoshû, 134 Carrol, John B., 172, 310 Cenemic, 111 Chafe, Wallace L., 240 Chang Tsung-tung, 8 Chao, Yuan-ren, 88, 241–242 Chen Guangyao, 20–21, 311 Chen Mingyuan, 177 Chen, Virginia, 188 Chen Wangdao, 21 Chen Wenbin, 182 Cheng, Robert L., 197 Chinese characters: common use characters, 208–211, 216, 218; and computers, 258–276 (see also Computers); and creativity, 125, 332 Index 289, 292–295, 300; and culture, 277–279, 281, 284, 287, 289, 292– 293, 297–300; cursive forms, 14, 134–135, 308; determinatives in (see Radicals); “dialect” characters, 127; early development, 11–13, 15, 102, 116, 130, 212, 223, 278, 301, 306; early reforms, 14 (see also Qin dynasty reforms); great seal, 14; as ideographs, 101, 104–109, 123; indexing, 281–284; in Japanese, 26–31, 53–54, 78, 126, 215–218, 227–229, 249–250, 278, 298–299, 304; in Korean, 50–56, 60–61, 63– 72, 78, 126–127, 218–222, 250, 278, 298–299; limitation in Chinese , 207–215; limitation in Japanese , 41, 43–44, 207–208, 215– 218; limitation in Korean, 70, 207– 208, 218–222; and literacy, 125– 145, 150–152, 224, 284–288, 293; as logographs, 109–111; made in Japan and Korea, 79; and morphemes , 15, 18, 112–123, 126, 129, 133, 143, 145, 150–152, 176– 180, 186, 202, 209–215, 244, 250, 252–255, 278, 280, 290, 295–296, 299–301; number in Chinese, 131– 135; number in Japanese, 135– 136; number in Korean, 136–138; number in use generally, 126–131, 138–139; phonetics in (see Phonetic elements); as pictograms, 15, 101– 104; popular innovations, 19–20, 223–227, 302; radicals in (see Radicals ); and reading (see Reading, of Chinese characters); small seal, 14; simplified forms (see Simplified characters); superiority for learning, 143–151; as a syllabary, 103, 113– 118, 166, 213, 278, 307; and syllables , 15, 27, 94, 116, 138, 143– 144, 174–178, 202, 213, 252–254, 280, 294, 299–301; traditional classification , 12–13, 212; transitivity, 186–190, 224; unifying aspects, 3, 297–298; “word-building power,” 180, 201, 262; and writing style, 245–252, 275, 287; in Vietnam, 73, 76–80, 87, 131, 187–188, 278– 279, 298 Chinese language(s): classical Chinese, 5, 60, 78, 83, 90, 175, 201, 247, 263, 301; classification, 199, 277; definition, 3–7, 127; “dialects,” 6–7, 87, 127–128, 174–175, 186– 187, 190–201, 273; free and bound morphemes, 112, 181; non-Han languages, 190, 310; phonology, 76, 174, 177, 193–196, 252, 303, 313; premodern language, 5, 7–8, 128, 191, 193, 202, 247–248, 301; syntax, 197–198; tones, 8, 75, 196; typology, 189; word, concept of, 178–181, 254, 261, 274 Choe Hyon-bae, 149, 166, 210, 297–298, 303, 305 Chomsky, Noam, 243, 246, 312 Chosôn kyoyuk shimuihoe. See Korea Education Council Chosôn ômun yônguhoe. See Korean Language Research Society Chuche, 65...