Chinese Language and Discourse

Volume 3, Issue 2 (2012)

2012.  iii, 158 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 December 2012
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
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