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Publication details [#44060]

Ching-yu Hsieh, Shelley. 2006. A corpus-based study on animal expressions in Mandarin Chinese and German. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (12) : 2206–2222.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
animal epic | expressibility | meaning | speech act
Language as a subject
Chinese, Mandarin | German
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This corpus-based study examines the meaning of various speech acts in the form of animal expressions in German and Mandarin Chinese.