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

Keywords

cognition | discourse | interaction | pragmatic function | semantics1

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | Chinese, Mandarin | Lingao

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.