Chinese Language and Discourse

Volume 3, Issue 2 (2012)

2012. iii, 158 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.3.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Intensifiers as stance markers: A corpus study on genre variations in Mandarin Chinese Ni-Eng Lim and Huaqing Hong	129–166
A syntactic classification of the synchronic use of gěi in Beijing Mandarin: A spoken corpus-based case study of its polyfunctionality Robert Martin Sanders and Satoshi Uehara	167–199
Openings of Chinese telephone service encounters: A comparative analysis across time Hao Sun	200–227
Mǎi dan or mái dan? ‘I come to buy the bill not to bury it’ Andy Kirkpatrick and Heng SU	227–246
Constructing the ‘tellables’: An English–Chinese comparative study of question–word interrogatives in interviews of celebrities on talk shows Xuehua Xiang	247–272
Book reviews
Review of Pan & Kádár (2011): Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Reviewed by Chun Lan	273–277
Review of Tseng (2009): Linguistic patterns in spontaneous speech Reviewed by Phoebe M.S. Lin	278–283
Review of Zhang (2010): Using Chinese Synonyms Reviewed by James E. Dew	284–286

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse studies

Sino-Tibetan languages