Where centering meets Chinese discourse / Saina Wuyun.
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
9811586667 (electronic book)
9789811586651
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
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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Table of Contents
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.
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.