Chinese Language and Discourse

Volume 12, Issue 2 (2021)

2021. iii, 145 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.12.2

Table of Contents

Articles

The use of le 了 in Mandarin Chinese oral discourse: A sociolinguistic perspective

Xiaoshi Li, Wenjing Li & Yaqiong Cui | pp. 135–157
Discretion: The final particle ou and its functions in medical advice-giving

Ying Jin & Dennis Tay | pp. 158–180
Indefinite subjects in Mandarin Chinese

Xiaowen Nie & Feng-hsi Liu | pp. 181–214
Manual action motivates networked meanings of a productive construction in Mandarin: Rethinking polysemy

Steffi H. Hung | pp. 215–237
Power and gender: Metaphors in mergers and acquisitions texts in a Chinese financial newspaper

Ke Li & Huichao Zhu | pp. 238–258
Language choice among Chinese-Indonesian children in Palembang City: A view of patterns and sociocultural factors

Budi Setiawan, I Dewa Putu Wijana & Sajarwa | pp. 259–279

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF/2GDC: Linguistics/Chinese

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General