| Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Wuyun, Saina (Author) |
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ISBN: 9811586659 ISBN-13: 9789811586651 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.02 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |