A Discourse Grammar Of Mandarin Chinese

Author : Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015043821795

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A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese by Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu Pdf

A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese focuses on the relationships between clauses in Mandarin Chinese in the functional framework. Underlying these relationships are notions like modality, presupposition, topicality, and information structure, encoded by such devices as conjunction, aspect, topic, «sentence»-particles and subordination. Chauncey Chu devotes a chapter to each of these devices, with a view to discovering their contribution to the coherent organization of Chinese discourse. These devices are finally integrated into a network, culminating in a proposal of «the discourse sentence» (represented by SENTENCE) to replace the syntactically and/or semantically defined «traditional» sentence. The organization of SENTENCES into paragraphs also is discussed in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory.

Author : Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294289

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Dramatized Discourse by Zhuo Jing-Schmidt Pdf

Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse dramaticity, a concept that includes high conceptual salience and subjectivity. The ba-construction and its "syntactic variations" are never interchangeable because contrast in their meanings determines difference in their functions. Quantitative analyses based on authentic data validate the postulation of discourse dramaticity. By taking discourse pragmatics seriously, the dramaticity hypothesis enables a unitary explanation that transcends sentence grammar. The diachronic treatment reveals the syntactic change of the ba-construction as an adaptive process of pragmatization, which raises the issue of linguistic evolution as a result of socio-cultural development. This book will be of particular value to readers interested in the interaction between grammar and pragmatics and to teachers confronting the controversy of the ba-construction in foreign language pedagogy.

Author : Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UOM:39015035340192

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The Structures of S̲h̲r̲̀ and Y̲ŏ̲u̲ in Mandarin Chinese by Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu Pdf

Author : Hongyin Tao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226150

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Units in Mandarin Conversation by Hongyin Tao Pdf

Hongyin Tao provides a new way of studying grammar based on the prosodic or intonation unit in spontaneous speech, rather than focusing on the unit of the artificially constructed sentence. Some notions developed from sentence-level data often do not account well for speech data. Contrary to the notion that the basic syntactic structure of a sentence comprises of both an NP and a VP, the author shows that a Mandarin sentence in spoken discourse can consist of a lone NP or a transitive verbal expression without any explicit argument (not anaphora). The author proposes the speech unit as one with which the grammar of Mandarin can better be understood. The book is of interest to scholars of discourse analysis, syntax, prosody, typology as well as of the Mandarin language.

Author : Shuanfan Huang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271365

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Chinese Grammar at Work by Shuanfan Huang Pdf

Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like. In this volume the author weaves together an array of fresh perspectives on clause structure, constructions, interactional linguistics, cognitive science and complex dynamic systems to construct a grammar of spoken Chinese. The volume contains discussions of a large number of topics: contiguity relation, the roles of repair strategies in the shaping of constituent structure, non-canonical word order constructions, pragmatics of referring expressions, classifier constructions, noun-modifying constructions, verb complementation, ethnotheory of the person and constructions specific to the language of emotion, sequential sensitivity of linguistic materials, meaning potential in interaction, the nature of variability and stability in Chinese syntax from the perspective of complexity theory. The result is a volume that highlights the connections between language structure, situated and embodied nature of cognition and language use, and affords a true entrée to the exciting realm of Chinese grammar.

Author : Xiaoling He
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262349

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Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by Xiaoling He Pdf

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous descriptions which were framed in terms of pre-existing grammatical notions such as ‘topicalization’, ‘passivization’ and ‘ergativization’, this book offers a fresh look at the PSC, in which its syntactic and semantic as well as its discourse functions are examined within the system of major construction-types of the language as a whole. The PSC, being low in transitivity, serves primarily the function of backgrounding in discourse. Typologically, the PSC bears a resemblance to middle constructions in Indo-European and other languages, raising interesting questions about ways to understand congruent and divergent syntactic structures across the world’s languages. This book will be of interest to students of Chinese Linguistics as well as Language Typology.

Author : Wendan Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004360884

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Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse by Wendan Li Pdf

In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive account of how Chinese, as a morphologically challenged language, uses grammatical means to highlight (or foreground) major events of a narrative and to demote (or background) other supporting descriptions.

Author : Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-04-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0520066103

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Mandarin Chinese by Charles N. Li,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

Author : FANG Mei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003850281

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Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar by FANG Mei Pdf

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials. Taking discourse functional grammar as its theoretical orientation, the book combines relevant theories with Chinese practice to work on a number of topics, including discourse phenomena and syntactic integration, the information status and discourse function of special syntactic structures, the emergence of discourse functions of metadiscourse components, and stylistic differences and their syntactic manifestations. Syntactic-semantic laws and discourse functions are examined in relation to each other, which better reveals their inner connection; a focus on the shaping of grammatical structures by interactional factors brings to light the functional motivations behind grammatical rules. In contrast to traditional Chinese grammar research, which takes individual simple or complex sentences as the object of study, this book mainly analyses grammatical phenomena that span sentences. By broadening the scope of research, it enables further exploration of issues that are difficult to address satisfactorily at the sentence level, thus enriching the study of Chinese grammar. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of interactional linguistics, Chinese linguistics and functional grammar.

Author : Hooi Ling Soh,Liang Tao,Yun Xiao
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443832489

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Current Issues in Chinese Linguistics by Hooi Ling Soh,Liang Tao,Yun Xiao Pdf

Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world and one of the very few contemporary languages whose history is documented in an unbroken tradition extending back to the second millennium. Compared with Western languages, Chinese has a typology with distinguished features in sound system, syntax, and discourse that have a strong impact on Chinese linguistics studies and language learning. Drawing on theoretical models from formal and functional linguistics, discourse analysis, computer-assisted corpus studies, language socialization, and second language acquisition, this volume presents new advances and addresses a broad range of current issues in the study of Chinese linguistics with research studies that originated from the proceedings of the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-21). As globalization presses on, more and more people are interested in Chinese – its history, structure, research, and new developments. This volume aims to be instrumental. Written in a coherent and structured style, each section is concentrated on a particular linguistic area, and each chapter is self-contained with a clear focus and theoretical framework. It will be valuable to linguists, educators, administrators, specialists, teachers and students of Chinese as a native, second, heritage, or foreign language.

Author : Hongmei Fang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9460933742

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Sentence-final Particles in Mandarin by Hongmei Fang Pdf

Author : Hua Lin
Publisher : Muenchen : Lincom Europa
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015050730723

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A Grammar of Mandarin Chinese by Hua Lin Pdf

Author : Mei Fang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 1032700661

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Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar by Mei Fang Pdf

"This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials. Taking discourse functional grammar as its theoretical orientation, the book combines relevant theories with Chinese practice to work on a number of topics, including discourse phenomena and syntactic integration, the information status and discourse function of special syntactic structures, the emergence of discourse functions of metadiscourse components, and stylistic differences and their syntactic manifestations. Syntactic-semantic laws and discourse functions are examined in relation to each other, which better reveals their inner connection; a focus on the shaping of grammatical structures by interactional factors brings to light the functional motivations behind grammatical rules. In contrast to traditional Chinese grammar research, which takes individual simple or complex sentences as the object of study, this book mainly analyses grammatical phenomena that span sentences. By broadening the scope of research, it enables further exploration of issues that are difficult to address satisfactorily at the sentence level, thus enriching the study of Chinese grammar. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of interactional linguistics, Chinese linguistics and functional grammar"--

Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351819398

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis by Chris Shei Pdf

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.

Author : Kylie Hsu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015046494160

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A Discourse Analysis of Temporal Markers in Written and Spoken Mandarin Chinese by Kylie Hsu Pdf