Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language? To do so, it presents a centering theory-based computational approach to discourse analysis concerning Chinese bei passive sentences, disposal ba constructions, ditransitive gei sentences, and locative fang sentences. The book first discusses the use of discourse analysis in the context of bei and ba constructions and then demonstrates how discourse analysis can contribute to the syntactic and semantic studies of these sentences. It also examines the various thematic roles differentiated in these four special sentence patterns, namely agent, recipient, theme/patient, and locative, and reveals the various degrees of discourse accessibility of these thematic roles. Exploring the correlation between centering theory and Chinese discourse, the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in discourse analysis and Chinese special sentential structures, especially the formal approaches to these issues.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Saina Wuyun
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	190
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-981-15-8665-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	981-15-8665-9
Barcode:	9789811586651

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