Lee Wai-Fung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [46-51] (3rd gp.)). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables and Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 . --- Aspect: a definition --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Analyses of verb classes --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Interim summary of analysis of verb classes --- p.14 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research questions --- p.16 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis outline --- p.18 / Chapter 1.5 --- Notation system --- p.18 / Chapter 1.6 --- Previous researches of Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Study of Aspect --- p.22 / Chapter 2.0 --- Introduction --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- Two-component Theory --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Viewpoint Aspect --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.1.1 --- Perfective Viewpoint --- p.24 / Chapter 2.1.1.2 --- Imperfective Viewpoint --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1.1.3 --- Neutral Viewpoint --- p.27 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Situation Aspect --- p.28 / Chapter 2.1.2.1 --- Temporal features of situation types --- p.29 / Chapter 2.1.2.2 --- Situation Types --- p.31 / Chapter 2.1.2.2.1 --- Activity --- p.31 / Chapter 2.1.2.2.2 --- Accomplishments --- p.33 / Chapter 2.1.2.2.3 --- Achievements --- p.35 / Chapter 2.1.2.2.4 --- Semelfactives --- p.37 / Chapter 2.1.2.2.5 --- States --- p.38 / Chapter 2.1.2.2.6 --- Summary of the temporal features of the five situation types --- p.39 / Chapter 2.2 --- Aspect in signed languages --- p.41 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Viewpoint Aspect in signed languages --- p.42 / Chapter 2.2.1.1 --- Aspectual inflections of viewpoint in signed languages --- p.42 / Chapter 2.2.1.2 --- Aspect Markers in signed languages --- p.47 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Situation Aspect in signed languages --- p.52 / Chapter 2.3 --- Predictions on the movement features of verb types in HKSL --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Situations Aspect in HKSL --- p.66 / Chapter 3.0 --- Introduction --- p.66 / Chapter 3.1 --- Background of informants --- p.66 / Chapter 3.2 --- Experiment 1: Comic strips and pictures description task --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3 --- Differentiating verb types in HKSL --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Imperative test --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Single movement test --- p.70 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Durative adverbial test --- p.71 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Telicity confirmation test --- p.72 / Chapter 3.4 --- Classification of situation types in HKSL --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- States --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4.1.1 --- Generalization and statistics of movement features in States --- p.74 / Chapter 3.4.1.2 --- Psychological verbs --- p.75 / Chapter 3.4.1.3 --- Verbs of postures and locations --- p.77 / Chapter 3.4.1.4 --- Mental verbs and verb of possession/existence --- p.83 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Activities --- p.84 / Chapter 3.4.2.1 --- Generalization and statistics of movement features in Activities --- p.84 / Chapter 3.4.2.2 --- Activities with [TM] or [Repeat] --- p.85 / Chapter 3.4.2.3 --- Activities with single movements --- p.89 / Chapter 3.4.2.4 --- Activities without the feature [Path] --- p.91 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Semelfactives --- p.93 / Chapter 3.4.3.1 --- Generalization and statistics of movement features in Semelfactives --- p.93 / Chapter 3.4.3.2 --- Movement features of Semelfactives --- p.94 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Achievements --- p.98 / Chapter 3.4.4.1 --- Generalization and statistics of movement features in Achievements --- p.98 / Chapter 3.4.4.2 --- Achievements with the feature [Path] --- p.99 / Chapter 3.4.4.3 --- Achievements without the feature [Path] --- p.103 / Chapter 3.4.4.4 --- Multiple-events Activities consisting of Achievements as sub-events --- p.105 / Chapter 3.4.5 --- Accomplishments --- p.108 / Chapter 3.4.5.1 --- Generalization and statistics of movement features in Accomplishments --- p.108 / Chapter 3.4.5.2 --- Type (I) Accomplishments´ؤcomposite of an Activity verb and an outcome --- p.109 / Chapter 3.4.5.2.1 --- Activity and a quantifying particle (QP) --- p.110 / Chapter 3.4.5.2.2 --- Verb series in type (I) Accomplishments --- p.114 / Chapter 3.4.5.2.2.1 --- Serial Verb Construction --- p.114 / Chapter 3.4.5.2.2.2 --- Verbal Compound --- p.117 / Chapter 3.4.5.3 --- Type (II) Accomplishments´ؤsingle Accomplishment verbs --- p.122 / Chapter 3.5 --- Generalizations on the representation of situation types in HKSL --- p.126 / Chapter 3.6 --- Chapter summary --- p.131 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Aspectual Modification --- p.133 / Chapter 4.0 --- Introduction --- p.133 / Chapter 4.1 --- Viewpoint Aspect in HKSL´ؤan overview --- p.133 / Chapter 4.2 --- Experiment 2: Natural conversation --- p.135 / Chapter 4.3. --- The syntactic distributions and grammatical functions of FINISH in HKSL --- p.136 / Chapter 4.4 --- Interaction between Situation Aspect and Viewpoint Aspect in HKSL --- p.144 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- States --- p.144 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Activities --- p.147 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Semelfactives --- p.149 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Achievements --- p.150 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- Accomplishments --- p.152 / Chapter 4.5 --- Meaning of the perfective marker FINSIH in HKSL --- p.157 / Chapter 4.6 --- Chapter summary --- p.165 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Suggestions for Future Research --- p.166 / Appendix 1 Tables and Figures / Appendix 2 Example of pictures and comic strips for experiment1 / Appendix 3 Transcription of natural conversation of Experiment2 / Appendix 4 Illustrations / Bibliography

Man Ka Yin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-54). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; questionnaires in Chinese. / Chapter I --- Abstract / English version --- p.i / Chinese version --- p.iii / Chapter II --- Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Chapter III --- Table of Contents --- p.v / Chapter IV --- Introduction / Types of Emotions --- p.2 / Characteristics of Emotional Communication --- p.4 / Psychological Aspect: Personality --- p.7 / Social Aspect: Interaction Pattern --- p.10 / Cognitive Aspect: Communication Concerns --- p.12 / Objectives of the Present Study --- p.14 / Chapter V --- Method / Participants --- p.15 / Instruments --- p.15 / Procedure --- p.17 / Chapter VI --- Results / Reliability Analyses --- p.18 / Emotional Sharing --- p.18 / Predicting Emotional Sharing --- p.21 / Chapter VII --- Discussion / Sharing across the Eight Types of Emotions --- p.28 / Factors Underlying Different Types of Emotional Sharing --- p.29 / Limitation and Further Studies --- p.40 / Implications --- p.41 / Chapter VIII --- References --- p.44 / Chapter IX --- Footnotes --- p.55 / Chapter X --- Tables --- p.56 / Chapter XI --- Figure --- p.65 / Chapter XII --- Appendices / Questionnaire (Chinese version) --- p.Appendix 1 / Zero-order Correlation Results --- p.Appendix 2

published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts

Even though there has been no lack of scholarly attention to Chinese epistolary texts as a source of information, discussions of the functions and practices of letter writing in imperial China are very limited. This thesis deals with how elites in Song dynasty (960-1279) China exchanged personal and political information by writing and sending letters to each other, and how the genre of letters functioned in its various forms throughout the socially transformative and culturally active period. Through contextualizing epistolary material - such as letters in manuscript and print form, letter collections, and epistolary manuals, as well as sources in other genres that describe letter writing practices - I explore the multifaceted uses of letter writing for literati officials. The study provides a systematic view of the functions of Song letter writing in political, social, and cultural realms by investigating its complex practices. Using letters in several sub-genres by important literati figures such as Mi Fu, Li Gang, and Sun Di, it illustrates the main aspects of letter writing, including format, rhetoric, topical content, and handwriting. In view of the roles played by letters exchanged among Song scholars, this research on literati correspondence provides a window on how interpersonal relationships were conducted by written exchanges during that period. It also sheds light on how epistolary culture was transformed by the literati community during one of the key periods of Chinese civilization. These insights will contribute to the research of Chinese literati culture and related fields, such as the social history of middle period China, and will also be useful for comparing China's epistolary culture with the world's other letter writing traditions.

published_or_final_version / Language Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Japanese Studies / Master / Master of Philosophy

Yim-Binh, Sze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-235). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement / Abstract / Table of Contents / List of Tables / Chapter Chapter 1 --- : Introduction Page / Chapter (1.1) --- Research questions --- p.1 / Chapter (1.1.1) --- Space and spoken languages --- p.1 / Chapter (1.1.2) --- Space and sign languages --- p.4 / Chapter (1.1.3) --- Nominals in Hong Kong Sign Language --- p.8 / Chapter (1.1.4) --- Research focus: interaction of space and nominals --- p.11 / Chapter (1.2) --- Thesis outline --- p.12 / Chapter (1.3) --- A brief note on the transcription convention --- p.13 / Chapter (1.4) --- Sociolinguistic background of Hong Kong Sign Language --- p.15 / Chapter (1.5) --- Documentation of Hong Kong Sign Language and Chinese Sign Language --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Space and Grammatical Relations / Chapter (2.0) --- Introduction --- p.21 / Chapter (2.1) --- On the grammatical relations 'subject' and 'object' --- p.21 / Chapter (2.2) --- Literature review --- p.28 / Chapter (2.2.1) --- Grammatical relations in American Sign Language (ASL) --- p.28 / Chapter (2.2.2) --- Grammatical relations in Chinese Sign Language (CSL) --- p.35 / Chapter (2.3) --- Experiment 1: Picture description and selection task --- p.36 / Chapter (2.4) --- Results: --- p.39 / Chapter (2.4.1) --- Non-reversible sentences --- p.39 / Chapter (2.4.2) --- Reversible sentences --- p.52 / Chapter (2.4.2.1) --- Linear representation: S V O --- p.52 / Chapter (2.4.2.2) --- "Spatial representation: the use of loci, inflecting verbs and classifiers" --- p.54 / Chapter (2.4.2.3) --- Reversible and non-reversible data: a further discussion --- p.64 / Chapter (2.4.3) --- An extension to dative constructions --- p.71 / Chapter (2.5) --- Chapter summary --- p.77 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Space and NP Referential Properties / Chapter (3.0) --- Introduction --- p.78 / Chapter (3.1) --- On the various referential properties --- p.78 / Chapter (3.2) --- Realization of referential properties in spoken and sign languages --- p.79 / Chapter (3.3) --- Specific NPs: indefinites and definites --- p.89 / Chapter (3.3.1) --- Experiment 2: picture story description and picture reordering --- p.89 / Chapter (3.3.2) --- NPs in subject positions --- p.90 / Chapter (3.3.2.1) --- Specific indefinites --- p.91 / Chapter (3.3.2.2) --- Specific definites --- p.96 / Chapter (3.3.3) --- NPs in object positions: specific indefinites and definites --- p.106 / Chapter (3.4) --- Non-specific indefinites and generics --- p.118 / Chapter (3.5) --- Chapter summary --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Space and Referential Loci --- p.123 / Chapter (4.0) --- Introduction --- p.123 / Chapter (4.1) --- Literature review --- p.1 24 / Chapter (4.1.1) --- Frame of reference in sign languages --- p.1 24 / Chapter (4.1.2) --- Nature of space and loci --- p.129 / Chapter (4.1.3) --- Shift of loci/ frame of reference --- p.133 / Chapter (4.2) --- Observation of Hong Kong Sign Language --- p.138 / Chapter (4.2.1) --- Localization of referents in narrative discourse --- p.138 / Chapter (4.2.2) --- Shift of loci / frame of reference in HKSL --- p.150 / Chapter (4.2.2.1) --- Role-play/ locus shift in HKSL --- p.150 / Chapter (4.2.2.2) --- Three more types of locus shift --- p.153 / Chapter (a) --- Loci contrast exaggeration --- p.153 / Chapter (b) --- Shifted focalization --- p.157 / Chapter (c) --- Token-surrogate alternation --- p.162 / Chapter (4.3) --- Chapter summary --- p.170 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Suggestions for Future Research --- p.171 / Appendix 1: Notation conventions --- p.176 / Appendix 2: Picture stimuli for experiment1 --- p.179 / "Appendix 3: Topic, Comment and Topicalization in HKSL" --- p.181 / Appendix 4: Picture stimuli for experiment2 --- p.190 / Appendix 5: Illustrations --- p.203 / References --- p.225

by Chan Yee-Fong and Lau Chin-Kau. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-76). / Questionnaires in Chinese and Japanese. / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.ii / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Background --- p.1 / Overview of Sino-Japan Joint Ventures in China --- p.3 / Cultural impact on Success and Failure of Joint Ventures in China --- p.7 / Objectives of Study --- p.9 / Methodology --- p.10 / Chapter II. --- INTERCULTURAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT --- p.14 / Concept of Culture --- p.14 / Interpersonal Conflict at Work --- p.19 / Chinese Culture and Her Conflict Management Style --- p.28 / Japanese Culture and Her Conflict Management Style --- p.33 / Chapter III. --- FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY --- p.41 / Conflict Management Style of Current Chinese Enterprises --- p.41 / Conflict Management Style of Current Japanese Enterprises --- p.44 / Intercultural Conflict Management of Sino-Japan Joint Ventures --- p.47 / Implication for Management --- p.52 / Chapter IV. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.55 / Summary of Findings --- p.55 / Limitations of our Study --- p.56 / Suggestions for Future Study --- p.59 / APPENDIX --- p.62 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.72

published_or_final_version / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy