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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

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.