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Shen, Di – 1991
The traditional theory of Chinese writing is that it is divorced from the language because as a non-alphabetic system, it cannot represent real speech. Chinese writing, however, is a functional linguistic system in its own right. Writing does not need to be totally dependent on speech, but can be related either to the phonological or the semantic…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cultural Context, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries
