15.2081, Books: Discourse/Pragmatics: Wu

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Date:  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Stance in Talk: Wu

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Date:  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Stance in Talk: Wu

Title: Stance in Talk
Subtitle: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 117

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20117

Author: Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu, San Diego State University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027253595, Pages: xvi, 260 pp., Price: EUR 99.00

Abstract:

Guided by the methodology of conversation analysis (CA), this book
explores how participants in Mandarin conversation display stance in
the unfolding development of action and interaction, and, in
particular, how this is accomplished through the use of two Mandarin
final particles. Through a close examination of the sequential
environments of these two particles and the interactional work
accomplished by their use, the research presented in this book seeks
to demonstrate how a participant-oriented, action-based micro approach
to data can help us gain analytic leverage in understanding the
functions and meanings of these particles -- an area which has long
posed a challenge to Chinese linguists. On the other hand, in
utilizing a CA-based framework applied to Mandarin, this study also
seeks to contribute to conversation analytic research by revealing
previously uninvestigated language-specific phenomena while at the
same time showing how talk-in-interaction in a non-western language,
i.e., Mandarin, can also display the same striking systematicity and
orderliness as observed in many western languages. As one of the
pioneering CA studies of Mandarin, this book will be of interest to
researchers in Chinese linguistics and conversation analysis, as well
as those in fields which touch upon the relationships between
languages and cultures.

Table of contents

Transcription conventions  ix
Glossing conventions  xi
Acknowledgements  xiii
1. Introduction  1--24
2. Preliminaries and methodology  25--48
3. Final ou  49--126
4. Final a  127--232
5. Conclusion  233--240
References  241--251
Name index  253
Subject index  255

Lingfield(s):	Discourse Analysis
		Pragmatics

Subject Language(s):	Chinese, Mandarin (Language code: CHN)

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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