32.1054, Books: Subjectivity, causality and connectives in Mandarin Chinese: Xiao

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:09:15
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Subjectivity, causality and connectives in Mandarin Chinese: Xiao

 


Title: Subjectivity, causality and connectives in Mandarin Chinese 
Subtitle: Converging evidence from written, spoken and social media discourse 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/subjectivity-causality-and-connectives-in-mandarin-chinese 


Author: Hongling Xiao

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933615 Pages: 224 Price: Europe EURO 32


Abstract:

This dissertation presents a series of four studies on the linguistic
categorization of Mandarin causal connectives from the perspective of
subjectivity, and to what extent the subjectivity property of each connective
holds across a range of discourse with variable producing processes and
contexts. Based on written, spoken and social media discourse, two corpus
studies were conducted on reason connectives (jìrán, yīnwèi and yóuyú,
‘because’) and result connectives (kějiàn, suǒyǐ, yīncǐ and yúshì,
‘so/therefore’), respectively. An experimental follow-up study tested the
validity of corpus findings with crowdsourced data from naïve native speakers.
A fourth study investigated causal relations marked with two connectives,
referred to as double marking (DM).

Results of the corpus analysis show that, regardless of the distinctive
discourse types, the connectives (both reason and result) differ
systematically regarding the subjectivity features of a causal relation they
prototypically express. Converging evidence for the findings comes from the
results of the crowdsourcing study on result connectives. That study also
shows the role of modality words (hedging or boosting) in predicting the
results. The analysis of DM constructions indicates that the subjectivity
profile of a DM construction cannot fully be reduced to that of the composing
single marking constructions, and that DM encodes specific pragmatic effects
on the interpretation of the relation. Together these studies give further
insight into a cognitive approach to coherence relations in Mandarin Chinese.

This dissertation may be of interest to researchers in the fields of L2
Mandarin teaching/research, human/machine translation, and researchers
interested in a cognitive approach to discourse connectives/relations in
language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

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


Written In: English  (eng)

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