Studies On Chinese Discourse Grammar

Author : Mei Fang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 1032700661

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"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 : FANG Mei
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 327 pages
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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 : Shuanfan Huang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Bojiang Zhang,Mei Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000707588

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Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese I by Bojiang Zhang,Mei Fang Pdf

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s. This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus. In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

Author : Hooi Ling Soh,Liang Tao,Yun Xiao
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103223699X

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A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : M.A.K. Halliday
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847065759

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Studies in Chinese Language by M.A.K. Halliday Pdf

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Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351819381

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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 : Hongyin Tao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266354

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Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning by Hongyin Tao Pdf

Linguistic research and language teaching have generally been viewed as two separate types of academic endeavor. While linguists have been preoccupied with pattern finding and theory building, language teachers often encounter issues that are not readily addressed by theoretical linguistic research. This collection, with eleven papers touching upon a wide range of issues, stands out as one of the rare concerted efforts toward a meaningful integration of the two endeavors. Subject matters include tone, stress, word structure, grammatical categories (e.g. classifiers), syntactic structures (including argument structure), discourse particles, implicit and explicit knowledge, conversational repair, and learner corpus. With a diverse range of theoretical orientations, this collection serves to showcase some of the productive ways to create synergy between Chinese linguistic research and language education.

Author : Yun Xiao,Linda Tsung
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262981

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Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse by Yun Xiao,Linda Tsung Pdf

This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and changes in Chinese language and discourse. Authors employ updated approaches from a variety of fields, including applied linguistics, functional linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics, to describe the structure of Chinese language and discourse and to examine its critical issues, many focusing on globalization-induced language developments and changes. With an empirically-based discourse/socio-cultural approach, this collection makes valuable contributions to research on Chinese language and discourse and serves as a sound reference for Chinese researchers and educators in diverse fields such as Chinese language and discourse, Chinese linguistics and language education, Chinese multiculturalism, and more.

Author : Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Bojiang Zhang,Mei Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000026375

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A Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese by Bojiang Zhang,Mei Fang Pdf

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s. This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus. In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

Author : Bojiang Zhang,Mei Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000707595

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Research on Functional Grammar of Chinese II by Bojiang Zhang,Mei Fang Pdf

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s. This two-volume book is one of the earliest and most influential works to study the Chinese language using functional grammar. With local Beijing vernacular (Pekingese) as a basis, the information structure and focus structure of the Chinese language are systematically examined. By using written works and recordings from Beijingers, the authors discuss topics such as the relationship between word order and focus, and the distinction between normal focus and contrastive focus. In addition, the authors also subject the reference and grammatical categories of the Chinese language to a functional scrutiny while discussion of word classes and their functions creatively combines modern linguistic theories and traditional Chinese linguistic theories. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese linguistics and linguistics in general.

Author : Chauncey Cheng-hsi Chu
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 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.