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Publication details [#26557]

Kirkpatrick, Andy. 1993. Information sequencing in Modern Standard Chinese in a genre of extended spoken discourse. Text 13 (3) : 423–453.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

sequential organization | spontaneous discourse

Language as a subject

Chinese, Modern

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This analysis of sequencing in Modern Standard Chinese shows that the recursive 'BECAUSE-THEREFORE' sequence is commonly used at discourse level, especially in spontaneous speech.