Publications

Publication details [#51042]

Xiang, Xuehua and Susan Strauss. 2009. Discourse particles: Where cognition and interaction intersect—The case of final particle ey in Shishan dialect (Hainan Island, P.R. China). Journal of Pragmatics 41 (7) : 1287–1312.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper illuminates the semantic–pragmatic functioning of the Shishan final discourse particle 'ey', compared to the functioning of Mandarin and Cantonese final particles, in an attempt to advance the research of interactional particles as fundamental grammatical elements of linguistic systems.