Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning

Certain mixed compounds, consisting of two synonymous components (one classical and one non-classical), are ideal for investigating lexical stylistics, as they are semantically synonymous but stylistically contrastive with both of their components. They are investigated using Biber’s (1988) multi-dimensional framework for register variation and the statistical method of Correspondence Analysis, which has been used by Zhang (2012, 2013) to show that there are two dimensions in written Chinese, na