Where centering meets Chinese discourse / Saina Wuyun.
Wuyun, Saina, author.
2020
PL1271
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Title Where centering meets Chinese discourse / Saina Wuyun.
Author Wuyun, Saina, author.
ISBN 9789811586668 (electronic book)
9811586667 (electronic book)
9789811586651
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8666-8
Published Singapore : Springer, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-15-8666-8 doi
Call Number PL1271
Dewey Decimal Classification 495.11/41
306.44
Summary 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.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 22, 2021).
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Chapter 1. An introduction to the book
Chapter 2. A refined Centering Theory
Chapter 3. A Centering analysis of discourse with Chinese bei passive
Chapter 4. A centering analysis of Chinese disposal ba construction
Chapter 5. Ranking of forward-looking centers in Chinese
Chapter 6. The influence of temporality interpretation on discourse coherence
Chapter 7. Concluding remarks.

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