| A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese Contributor(s): Rauch, Irmengard (Editor), Chauncey C Chu (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820438901 ISBN-13: 9780820438900 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $100.51 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| LCCN: 97030285 |
| Series: Berkeley Models of Grammars |
| Physical Information: 484 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A Discourse Grammar of Mandarin Chinese" focuses on the relationships between clauses in Mandarin Chinese in the functional framework. Underlying these relationships are notions like modality, presupposition, topicality, and information structure, encoded by such devices as conjunction, aspect, topic, -sentence--particles and subordination. Chauncey Chu devotes a chapter to each of these devices, with a view to discovering their contribution to the coherent organization of Chinese discourse. These devices are finally integrated into a network, culminating in a proposal of -the discourse sentence- (represented by SENTENCE) to replace the syntactically and/or semantically defined -traditional- sentence. The organization of SENTENCES into paragraphs also is discussed in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory." |