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Publication details [#65833]

Hsu, Chan-Chia. 2019. A corpus-based study on the functions of antonym co-occurrences in spoken Chinese. Text & Talk 39 (4) : 535–562.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

antonymy | conversation | corpus analysis | spoken language | written language

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin, Taiwanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper unveils how antonym use differs across spoken and written Chinese. Antonyms that are dialogic in nature seem to predominate in spoken Chinese, and antonyms are frequently employed to notify a nearby contrast or to convey inclusiveness/integrality.