Dramatized Discourse. The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction.
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| Title: | Dramatized Discourse. The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction. |
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| Description: | 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 |
| Authors: | JING-SCHMIDT, Zhuo |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Chinese language--Syntax |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 |
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| ISBN: | 9789027215659 9789027294289 |
