Hua Gao
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hua Gao plays a role.
Articles
2021 Devices of alignment: Suoyi- and danshi-prefaced questions in Mandarin Chinese TV news interviews Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 227–254 | Chapter
The Mandarin resultative connective suoyi ‘so’ and adversative connective dan(shi) ‘but’ are found to preface interviewer (IR) questions regularly in Chinese TV news interviews. This study draws on a conversational analysis (CA)-oriented micro-analytical approach and examines the form, placement… read more
2019 Devices of alignment: Suoyi- and Danshi-prefaced questions in Mandarin Chinese TV news interviews Chinese Language and Discourse 10:1, pp. 36–60 | Article
This study draws on a conversational analysis (CA)-oriented micro-analytical approach and examines the form, placement and function of interviewer (IR) questions prefaced by turn-initial 所以 suoyi ‘so’ and 但(是) dan(shi) ‘but’ in Chinese TV news interviews. It is found that IRs often employ the… read more
