Huiling Ding

To be honest I couldn’t follow the topic in the essay. I know nothing about Chinese dialect or the text that the person was analyzing and so I found it hard to find a place to start when it came to understanding it. However, I found it very informational when it came to analyzing an artifact. While I think the situation will be slightly different – it seemed like Ding was talking about his method of analyzing while talking about what he had found using his methods. But I still think some things I noticed could be applied

While the artifact Ding was studying was text the reading showed there is more then one method of analyzing it then simply reading it. For instance the idea of understanding the history of the linguistics had never occurred to me. I ‘ve never really thought about the history of a word, and my linguistics class I’m taking this semester has just started to show me the concept of understanding how we speak and what it means.

Another thing I noticed that while their many different methods Ding of analyzing the text it always went back to her main goal, or thesis. This is probably a good thing to keep in mind in any paper, but especially when analyzing in several different ways. It could be easy to get distracted or start to ramble.