Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns in English and Mandarin Chinese

Lin Wang lectures at the English Department of the Foreign Language Institute at Ningbo University (China), where she teaches Interpreting and Contrastive Linguistics (between German and English). She did a PhD program at Freie Universität Berlin. Her current research concentrates, amongst others, on Color Theory and Typology.

• Contents: Zìjĭ – Běnrén – Self – Intensifiers – Reflexive pronouns – Contrastive study – English – Mandarin Chinese – Most distinctive research of the latest 30 years –First book that draws a complete picture on intensifiers and reflexive pronouns – Full use of běnrén, self and zìjĭ in Mandarin Chinese – First book that uses contrastive study to talk about intensifiers and reflexive pronouns.