Chinese Language and Discourse

Volume 6, Issue 2 (2015)

2015. iii, 144 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.6.2

Table of Contents

Articles
The verbal art of tucao and face-threatening acts in danmu screening Chi-hua Hsiao	109–132
Directive-giving and grammatical forms: Mitigation devices in a medical laboratory setting Angela Chan, Wei Zhang, Olga Zayts-Spence, Mary Hoi Yin Tang and Wai Keung Tam	133–161
Conceptual autonomy and dependence in Chinese lexical semantic analysis: The role of image-schema, conceptual domains and co-text in [v]–[shang] Wei-lun Lu	162–182
Tunes of different speech styles in Cantonese Ling Zhang	183–204
Review articles
New poetics in China: A review of experimental Chinese literature Norbert Francis	205–217
Corpus-based Chinese studies: A historical review from the 1920s to the present Jiajin Xu	218–244
Book reviews
Review of Liu (2015): Chinese Conversation and Grammar Reviewed by Ying Yang	245–247
Review of McCabe & Chang (2013): Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion Reviewed by Xin Peng	248–252

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF/2GDC: Linguistics/Chinese

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General