sinophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sino- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: This roundtable addresses recent developments in sinophone postcolonial studies with such questions as, How is sinophone studies as a distinct discipline taking shape while still retaining its interdisciplinary imperative? How does sinophone postcolonial studies both critically engage and disengage with the “rise of China”?
ref: 2012 October, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume 127, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Modern Language Association of America, →ISSN, page 1138, column 1:
text: With this final chapter, then, this book’s focus on the PRC literary system gradually gives way to a discussion of a wider range of writings belonging to the realm of sinophone (or sinographic) literature.
ref: 2015, Michel Hockx, “Online Poetry in and out of China, in Chinese, or with Chinese”, in Internet Literature in China, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has contributed to. Thus, agency does not necessarily result in one’s own (sinophone or other) learning goals but may mediate others’ socialization, even when the facilitating or socializing agent is not herself an expert in the Chinese language.
ref: 2015, Patricia A. Duff, Liam Doherty, “Examining Agency in (Second) Language Socialization Research”, in Ping Deters, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Gergana Vitanova, editors, Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Second Language Acquisition; 84), Bristol: Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, part 1 (Theoretical Approaches to Agency), page 68:
text: To restrict the study of Persian poetry to the nation-state, despite its being written in a region extending from Turkey and Iran to Afghanistan and India, makes no more sense than to draw hard national boundaries around anglophone, sinophone, or hispanophone poetry.
ref: 2020, Jahan Ramazani, “Epilogue. Lyric Poetry: Intergeneric, Transnational, Translingual?”, in Poetry in a Global Age, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 247:
text: Chu Ci 楚辞, or The Songs of the South (third century BC), one of the earliest anthologies of Classical Chinese poetry, is probably the least known work outside the sinophone or sinologist circles.
ref: 2021, Shuangyi Li, Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Heidegger’s reflections on the word Brauch (habit, use), often with reference to a quotation from Anaximander, mark the relationship between the Greek and the German language with archaisms difficult to comprehend and with an attitude of thinking that rejects rapid utilization. What I want to suggest, however, is that, if contemporary German philosophy is prepared to open itself up to possibilities of transcultural communication with sinophone or, more precisely, sino-grammatic philosophy at all, the use of such uselessness is imperative.
ref: 2022, Fabian Heubel, “The Politics of Uselessness: On Heidegger’s Reading of the Zhuangzi”, in David Chai, editor, Daoist Resonances in Heidegger: Exploring a Forgotten Debt (Daoism and the Human Experience), London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sinophone.