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Publication details [#45767]

Wang, Yu-Fang and Pi-Hua Tsai. 2007. Textual and contextual contrast connection: A study of Chinese contrastive markers across different text types. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (10) : 1775–1815.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastiveness | discourse genre | discourse marker | text type

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses the use and functions of the Chinese contrastive markers zhishi, danshi, buguo, and keshi, which correspond to English ‘but/yet/however’, across different formal and informal text types.