Michael Sawer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Sawer is involved.

Article

Sawer, Michael 1995 Handling neologisms in teaching and learning modern standard Chinese The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia, Kirkpatrick, Andy, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick (eds.), pp. 203–228 | Article

This article examines neologisms coined in Modern Standard Chinese since 1978, and particularly since the mid 1980’s. The neologisms discussed were collected during recent fieldwork in Beijing: through spoken interviews, from the media, and from recent secondary sources. The article focuses on… read more