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Chinese classifiers (measure words): A phenomenon that is hard to translate

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Plinta M.
Studia Linguistica
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2015
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issue 34
117-123
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Due to the fact that Chinese and Polish belong to completely different language families I intend to discuss one grammatical phenomenon that appears in the Chinese language. In the first part I will focus on the explanation of the term “classifier”, the second part will deal with the methods which Polish and Chinese teachers use to differently explain classifiers. Through this article I will depict the different ways the world is perceived as a result of using different language systems.
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Needing the other: the anatomy of the Mass Noun Thesis

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Brons L.
ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal
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2014
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vol. 4
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issue 1
103-122
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Othering is the construction and identification of the self or in-group and the other or out-group in mutual, unequal opposition by attributing relative inferiority and/or radical alienness to the other/out-group. Othering can be “crude” or “sophisticated”, the defining difference being that in the latter case othering depends on the interpretation of the other/out-group in terms that are applicable only to the self/in-group but that are unconsciously assumed to be universal. The Mass Noun Thesis, the idea that all nouns in certain languages are grammatically and folk-ontologically similar to mass nouns in English, is an example of such sophisticated othering. According to this Thesis, (a) count nouns refer to discrete objects and mass nouns to stuffs; (b) the other’s language has only mass nouns and thus no count nouns; and therefore, (c) the other’s folk-ontology is an ontology of mass stuffs only. There is much evidence, however, that folk-ontology is independent from language. This paper argues that the Mass Noun Thesis is a case of sophisticated othering rooted in a conflation of grammatical and ontological conceptions of mass and count nouns that is applicable to the language of the interpreter/self but not to the languages of the relevant others, and that othering in this case is driven by a need to create some radically alien other to support a scientific or philosophical theory.
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