Publications

Publication details [#53018]

Wang, Yu-Fang, Pi-Hua Tsai and Ya-Ting Yang. 2010. Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Evidence from qishi (‘actually’) and shishishang (‘in fact’) in spoken Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 707–727.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse marker | intersubjectivity | interview | politeness | pragmatic function

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Drawing on relevance and politeness theory, this study explores the textual and interactional (pragmatic) uses of the Chinese discourse markers 'qishi' (‘actually’) and 'shishishang' (‘in fact’) in both formal and informal speech settings, whilst also addressing intersubjective components.