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"Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the connections between properties of texts and social practices (ideologies, stancetaking, power relations, etc.), the updated and exemplary research projects presented in the volume demonstrates a developing trajectory of research in Chinese language and discourse. With its empirical focus and stress on the role of language and discourse in social practice, this important new book discusses various language features as well as gender, stancetaking, and identity in Chinese discourse. This is a vital discussion for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese language and discourse studies. In examination of different layers of language (i.e. from lexical items and sentence structures to discourse features and discursive practices) across different genres of texts, the research projects have drawn on a variety of linguistic approaches and methodologies, including functional linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and various approaches to discourse analysis. Researchers and students of Chinese linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, translation studies, and China studies in general will find this volume an indispensable reference and an enjoyable read"-- Researching the Chinese language and discourse : past and present / Wei Wang -- The distribution of null subjects in Chinese discourse : a centering approach / Shuangshuang (Lillian) Chen -- Conversational narrative marker : identification and modification / Dongyi Zhu -- Windows of attention and the polysemy of V-kai / Wang Liansheng -- The acceptability of 把 ba+subject-oriented resultatives in Mandarin Chinese / Shuo Yu -- Gender representation in Chinese language / Lan Li -- Understanding stancetaking through gestures and linguistic practices in a public political debate in Hong Kong / Helen Wan -- Representations of Pinkunsheng in China's university media / Yuping Chen -- Language resources of Yunnan in "the Belt and Road" project / Linda Tsung, Zhang Xia and Zhang Lubei -- Impact of power relations on news translation in China : a critical discourse analysis perspective / Liang Xia -- Translating puns in Alice's adventures in Wonderland : a relevance-theoretic approach to (un)translatability / Samantha Zhan Xu -- Translation and re-narration of Nainai : the personal deixis in the English translations of Honglou Meng / Jiayan Xiao, Qing Yang and Shiyao He.
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