26.3797, Books: Subjectivity in Mandarin Chinese: Li

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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:45:14
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Subjectivity in Mandarin Chinese: Li

 


Title: Subjectivity in Mandarin Chinese 
Subtitle: the meaning and use of causal connectives in written discourse 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
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Book URL: http://bit.ly/1NJyAIe 


Author: Fang Li

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931475 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the way in which 'subjectivity'- the degree to which the speaker expresses herself in the utterance - constrains the use of Chinese causal connectives, and into the universal and language-specific properties associated with this use. It starts with a literature review theoretically evaluating the potential for the western notion of subjectivity to explain the usage patterns of causal connectives in Chinese discourse, followed by corpus-based analyses of eight Chinese causal connectives in terms of subjectivity across different genres of written text (i.e., news reports, novels, and opinion pieces). The results indicate that overall, Chinese causal connectives show systematic variation in terms of subjectivity. Six of them (i.e., jiran, yinwei, youyu, all translated as 'because'; and kejian, yin'er, yushi, all translated as 'so/therefore') display subjectivity profiles that differ from each other, and are robust across genres, whereas two other causal co
 nnectives (i.e., suoyi and yinci, both translated as 'so/therefore') manifest genre-sensitivity. The dissertation discusses implications of these findings for the way in which connectives are stored in the lexicon. In an eye-tracking experiment, it was investigated whether and how the degrees of subjectivity encoded in subjective/objective causal connectives affect the online processing of Chinese discourse. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology

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


Written In: English  (eng)

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