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Publication details [#46375]

Wang, Yu-Fang, Pi-Hua Tsai and Meng-Ying Ling. 2007. From informational to emotive use: meiyou (`no') as a discourse marker in Taiwan Mandarin conversation. Discourse Studies 9 (5) : 677–701.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse marker | emotion | information processing | interaction

Language as a subject

Chinese, Taiwanese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on corpus analysis, this paper demonstrates that the Taiwan Mandarin discourse marker 'meiyou' appears more often at the interactional than at the textual level, and discusses its informational and affective use.