29.969, Books: Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse: Li

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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:13:41
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse: Li

 


Title: Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse 
Series Title: USLC 32  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/grounding-chinese-written-narrative-discourse 


Author: Wendan Li

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004316645 Pages: 293 Price: Europe EURO 79
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004316645 Pages: 293 Price: U.S. $ 91


Abstract:

In "Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse" Wendan Li offers a
comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language
without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major
events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting
descriptions. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the analysis and
examinations of authentic written text provide extensive evidence to
demonstrate that various types of morpho-syntactic devices are used in a wide
range of structural units in Chinese to mark the distinction between
foregrounding and backgrounding. The analysis paves the way for future studies
to systematically approach grounding-related issues. The typological viewpoint
adopted in the chapters serves well readers from both the Chinese tradition
and other languages in discourse analysis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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