Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-981-15-8665-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

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 formalapproaches to these issues.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wuyun, Saina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Saina Wuyun received her doctoral degree in Linguistics from the City University of Hong Kong. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Shaanxi Normal University and is currently researching in the field of formal discourse analysis and the syntax of archaic Chinese. She has published papers in journals such as Lingua, Language and Linguistics, and Chinese Language and Discourse. She is an executive member of the council for Associação de Caracteres Chineses de Macau.