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    Americanization of French Theory and the Rise of “Chinese Postism”
    (Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 2024-01-01) Liu, K; Wei, D
    Chinese Postism refers to Chinese versions of poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, three major western theoretical trends prefixed with “post.” Chinese Postism is largely retranslations of English translations (and interpretations) of French theories of poststructuralism and postmodernism, as well as postcolonialism as American appropriation of French theories. Revisiting the French- American-Chinese journey of theory may help uncover the broader political and ideological changes underlying the intellectual and academic trends.
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    An Experimental Investigation into the Scope Assignment of Japanese and Chinese Quantifier-Negation Sentences
    (Languages, 2024-03-01) Chen, Y
    Quantifier-Negation sentences such as all teachers did not use Sandy’s car are known to allow an inverse scope interpretation in English. However, there is a lack of experimental evidence to determine whether this interpretation is allowed in equivalent sentences in Japanese and Chinese. To address this issue, this study conducted a sentence–picture matching truth value judgment experiment in both Japanese and Chinese. The data suggested that Japanese Quantifier-Negation sentences do allow inverse scope readings, which suggests that the subject may be interpreted within the scope of negation. In contrast, Chinese Quantifier-Negation sentences prohibit inverse scope readings, which is in accordance with the strong scope rigidity consistently observed in this language. This paper also discussed how to develop a valid experiment for investigating scope ambiguities.
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    An experimental investigation of the Deep Double-o Constraint in Japanese causative constructions
    (Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2024-05-27) List, Abbey; Chen, Yunchuan
    Abstract The Double-o Constraint (DoC) was proposed to explain the ungrammaticality of having two or more noun phrases (NPs) marked by the accusative case marker -o in a single Japanese clause. It has been argued that there are two types of DoCs: the Surface Double-o Constraint (SDoC) and the Deep Double-o Constraint (DDoC). The DDoC prohibits two accusative arguments in a single argument structure and is not affected by the number of accusative case markers on the surface. The evidence is from Japanese causatives. Our study conducted an experiment to test the DDoC and found that it may only apply to some native Japanese speakers.
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    Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism
    (The Black Scholar, 2023-04-03) McLarney, E; Idris, S
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    Educator Tip - The latest in language learning technology
    (The Language Educator) Knapczyk, Kusum
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    Transforming Emotional Regime: Pai Hsien- yung’s Crystal Boys
    (Queer Cats Journal of LGBTQ Studies) Jiang, Linshan
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    Western Theory’s Chinese Transformation: Postscript
    (CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 2023-12-01) Liu, K