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Publication details [#56307]

Chang, Miao-Hsia and Hsin-Yi Su. 2012. To mark or not to mark the cause, that is the question: Causal marking in Taiwanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (13) : 1743–1763.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This analysis of the discourse-pragmatic functions of the causal marker inui in Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) conversations, demonstrates that inui is interactively controlled and deployed to attain mutual respect. It is especially used when a speaker identifies the need to offer the addressee a better and more kind conversational ground in order to evade face threat, to settle a trouble of talk, or to bridge an information gap.