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Publication details [#61091]

Pascual, Esther and Mingjian Xiang. 2016. Debate with zhuangzi. Expository questions as fictive interaction blends in an old Chinese text. Pragmatics 26 (1) : 137–162.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | intersubjectivity | monologue | perspective | philosophy

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Expository questions used as discourse strategy in Zhuangzi (4th c. B.C.), a basic Daoist text, are treated as conversational monologues and intersubjectivity (cf. Verhagen, 2008) constructions, comprising a blend (Dancygier and Sweetser 2012) of writer, assumed readers’ and discourse characters’ perspectives.