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Publication details [#53791]

Wang, Yu-Fang, David Goodman, Pi-Hua Tsai and Meng-Ying Lin. 2010. Agreement, acknowledgment, and alignment: The discourse-pragmatic functions of hao and dui in Taiwan Mandarin conversation. Discourse Studies 12 (2) : 241–267.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | corpus analysis | politeness | pragmatic function | relevance theory

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin, Taiwanese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study uses relevance and politeness theory and conversation analysis to explore the full range of discourse-pragmatic functions of hao and dui in a large corpus of Taiwan Mandarin talk.