Analysing Chinese language and discourse across layers and genres

Analysing Chinese language and discourse across layers and genres

"Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to...

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Other Authors: Wang, Wei (Lecturer in Chinese studies)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Studies in Chinese language and discourse (SCLD), volume 13
Subjects:
China
Chinese language > Discourse analysis.
Translating and interpreting > China.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Chinois (Langue) > Analyse du discours.
Analyse linguistique (Linguistique)
Livres numériques.
e-books.
Electronic books.
Chinese language > Discourse analysis
Translating and interpreting
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres
  • Editorial page
  • Title page'
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Chapter 1. Researching the Chinese language and discourse: Past and present
  • Structure of the book
  • The first section 'Chinese language studies' (Chapters 2-6)
  • The second section 'Chinese discourse studies' (Chapters 7-9)
  • The third section 'Chinese translation studies' (Chapters 10-12)
  • References
  • Chapter 2. The distribution of null subjects in Chinese discourse: A centering approach
  • Introduction
  • The typology of null subjects in Chinese
  • Referential null subject
  • Non-referential null subject
  • Overview of centering theory
  • Centers
  • Transitions
  • Constraints and rules
  • Specifying centering parameters in Chinese
  • Utterance
  • Discourse segment
  • Cf ranking
  • Rule 1
  • Rule 2
  • Corpus and method
  • Results and analysis: The distributions of null subjects and their antecedents
  • The distribution of null subjects
  • The distribution of antecedents
  • The distribution of null subjects by transition types
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7. Understanding stancetaking through gestures and linguistic practices in a public political debate in Hong Kong
  • Background of the study
  • Methodology
  • Gesture analysis
  • Stancetaking and the stance triangle
  • Data
  • Findings
  • Individual speech
  • Analyzing the individual speech with the Stance Triangle
  • Interim summary for stancetaking in individual speech
  • The debate between Alvin Yeung and Holden Chow
  • Analyzing the debate with the Stance Triangle
  • Interim summary for the debate
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References

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