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Publication details [#47208]

Berg, M. E. Van Den and G. Wu. 2006. The Chinese Particle Le. Discourse Construction and Pragmatic Marking in Chinese. Routledge. 272 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse, production of | markedness | particle | pragmatics | sentence

Language as a subject

Chinese

Annotation

This book on the use of the Chinese particle 'LE', examines the Chinese data from a 'mental space' approach and at last discloses the role played by the so-called Chinese 'sentence LE' in discourse construction and maintenance.