Introduction: language in action, language in context / Chu-Ren Huang, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese philosophy, religions and language / Friederike Assandri and Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese language and Buddhism / Jiandao, Jianxun and Jiajuan Xiong -- Chinese language and Christianity / Federico Masini -- Chinese language and the Silk Roads / Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese, food and menus / Yao Yao and Qi Su -- Chinese language and fruits / Shelley Ching-yu Depner -- Colour terms in Chinese / Huei-ling Lai -- The function of poetic language and rhymes in pre-modern Chinese literature / Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese cultures of learning: elicited metaphor research / Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi -- Learning "Chinese" as a heritage language: challenges, issues and ways forward / Patricia Duff and Liam Doherty -- Chinese language and gender research marjorie / K.M. Chan and Yuhan Lin -- Varieties of Chinese: dialects or sinitic languages? / Maria Kurpaska -- Variations in world Chineses / Jingxia Lin, Dingxu Shi, Menghan Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang -- Chinese language and new immigrants / Chin-Chin Tseng and Chen-Cheng Chun -- Chinese language and social justice / Susan D. Blum -- Chinese language arts: the role of language and linguistic devices in literary and artistic expressions / Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens, Tania Becker, Regina Llamas, King-fai Tam and Barbara Meisterernst -- Chinese multimodal resources for dialogue act analysis / Alex Chengyu Fang, Yanjiao Li, Jing Cao and Harry Bunt -- Chinese and counterfactual reasoning / Yan Jiang -- Linguistic synaesthesia in Chinese / Chu-Ren Huang and Jiajuan Xiong -- Chinese and emotion analysis / Sophia Yat Mei Lee -- Humour in Chinese / Lingling Ge and Yuanjian He -- Irony in Chinese languages: an overview and a case study / I-wen Su and Shuping Huang -- Metaphor in Chinese / Kathleen Ahrens and Siaw-Fong Chung -- Commendatory and derogatory expressions in Chinese / Janet Zhiqun Xing -- Cursing, taboo and euphemism / Zhuo Jing-Schmidt -- Chinese for specific purposes: a broader perspective / Haidan Wang and Song Jiang -- Chinese translation in the twenty first century / Weixiao Wei and Chris Shei -- The study of Chinese language advertisements / Doreen D. Wu and Chaoyuan Li -- Chinese communication in a globalizing world: an outline of an emerging contemporary Chinese discourse / Shi-xu -- Computer and Chinese writing system / Qin Lu -- Digital language resources and NLP tools / Chu-Ren Huang and Nianwen Xue -- Information quality: linguistic cues and automatic judgments / Qi Su -- Chinese neologisms / Zhuo Jing-Schmidt and Shu-Kai Hsieh -- Online language resources: advances, applications and challenges / Weidong Zhan and Xiaojing Bai -- The impact of information and communication technology on Chinese language life / Jingwei Zhang and Daming Xu -- Chinese and aphasia / Sam-Po Law and Anthony P.-H Kong -- A study of syntactic ability and its relation to theory of mind in cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder / Man Tak Leung and Hong Lan Li -- Language and the brain in the sunset years / William S-Y. Wang -- Concept composition during language processing: two case studies and a model / Maria M. Pinango -- Chinese reading acquisition / Chia-Ying Lee -- Neural mechanisms for the processing of Chinese / Wei Zhou, Linjun Zhang, Hua Shu and Ping Li -- Tone and music processing in Chinese / Caicai Zhang -- Chinese sociolinguistics / Daming Xu and Jingwei Zhang -- Linguistic anthropology of Chinese / Chen-chun E -- Chinese rhetoric / Yan Jiang -- Investigating sign languages in the Chinese context / Jia Li, Jia He and Gladys Tang -- Chinese psycholinguistics: a typological overview / Chien-Jer Charles Lin.