24.904, Books: On Chinese Modal Particle A: Wang
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Title: On Chinese Modal Particle A
Subtitle: A Pragmatic and Semantic Study
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431193
Author: Ying Xian Wang
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034311939 Pages: 426 Price: U.S. $ 105.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034311939 Pages: 426 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034311939 Pages: 426 Price: Europe EURO 80.80
Abstract:
Chinese modal particles feature prominently in Chinese people’s daily use of
the language, but their pragmatic and semantic functions are elusive as
commonly recognised by Chinese linguists and teachers of Chinese as a foreign
language. This book originates from an extensive and intensive empirical study
of the Chinese modal particle a (), one of the most frequently used modal
particles in Mandarin Chinese. In order to capture all the uses and the
underlying meanings of the particle, the author transcribed the first 20
episodes, about 20 hours in length, of the popular Chinese TV drama series
Kewang ‘Expectations’, which yielded a corpus data of more than 142’000
Chinese characters with a total of 1829 instances of the particle all used in
meaningful communicative situations. Within its context of use, every single
occurrence of the particle was analysed in terms of its pragmatic and semantic
contributions to the hosting utterance. Upon this basis the core meanings were
identified which were seen as constituting the modal nature of the particle.
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
Written In: English (eng)
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