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Publication details [#42734]

Wang, Yu-Fang. 2005. From lexical to pragmatic meaning: Contrastive markers in spoken Chinese discourse. Text 25 (4) : 469–518.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | markedness | pragmatic function | spoken language

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article uses discourse analysis to investigate the discourse- and socio-pragmatic functions of a range of apparently synonymous contrastive markers in Mandarin speech: zhishi, buguo, keshi, and danshi.