A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

Different strategies of gender-fair language have been applied to reduce a male bias, which
means the implicit belief that a word describing an undefined person describes a man. This …

This article describes emerging misogynistic labels involving the morpheme biăo 'slut'as a
gendered personal suffix in the Chinese cyber lexicon. We analyze the morphological …

This paper is concerned with young people's perceptions and reported use of the two
language varieties that co-exist in the urban centre of Guangzhou in southern China …

Native (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing can sometimes be shallow. A
Good-Enough approach suggests that speakers may engage in shallow processing if the …

The present study focuses on word order patterns in English personal binomials and argues
that conjunct order in this binomial type is partly subject to other factors than those shown in …

This chapter will provide an overview of language and gender research in the Chinese
context prior to the 1980s to the most recent work in the 2010s, covering a wide range of …

Chinese proverbs, a mode of language that children encounter in their early stage of
learning, are important tools with which to instil values and transform the social order. Any …

Gender fair language aims to reduce gender-bias and discrimination. However, little
research has focused on how L2 English learners use these expressions. The present study …

Recent studies found that sound symbolism (nonarbitrary connection between sound and
meaning) is more pervasive in human language than previously thought. Studies on English …