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Publication details [#33141]

Wang, Yu-Fang, Aya Katz and Chih-Hua Chen. 2003. Thinking as saying: shuo ('say') in Taiwan Mandarin conversation and BBS talk. Language Sciences 25 (5) : 457–488.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function | informality | lexeme | speech | writing

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines (changes in) the functions of the lexeme shuo 'say' in informal Chinese speech and writing, drawing on two sets of data: non-face-to-face talk on the Electronic Bulletin Board System and face-to-face daily conversation of young Taiwanese people.