Current Trends in Chinese Discourse

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 5:1 (2014)

Editors
ORCID logoWei Wang | University of Sydney
ORCID logoLinda Tsung | University of Sydney
[Chinese Language and Discourse, 5:1] 2014.  v, 97 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 September 2014
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.5.1
Table of Contents
Introduction
Analysing Chinese discourse in the new era
Linda Tsung and Wei Wang
1–6
Articles
The pragmatics of the Chinese nominal marker de 的: 我的爸爸 “my dad” versus 我爸爸 “my dad”
Chaofen Sun
7–24
The rise of a high transitivity marker 到 dao in contemporary Chinese: Co-evolvement of language and society
Kan Chen and Hongyin Tao
25–52
A corpus-based discourse analysis of conversational storytelling in Chinese adults
Yurong Zhao and Yang Zhao
53–78
Comparing classifier use in 1995 and 2010 early child Cantonese to explore social change in Hong Kong
Hui Li and Eileen Chin Mei Wong
79–97
Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Discourse studies
Pragmatics
Sino-Tibetan languages

Main BIC Subject

CF/2GDC: Linguistics/Chinese

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General