Analysing Chinese language and discourse across layers and genres

Analysing Chinese language and discourse across layers and genres /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Wang, Wei (Lecturer in Chinese studies) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Studies in Chinese language and discourse (SCLD), volume 13
Subjects:
Chinese language > Discourse analysis.
Translating and interpreting > China.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres
  • Editorial page
  • Title page'
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Chapter 1. Researching the Chinese language and discourse: Past and present
  • Structure of the book
  • The first section 'Chinese language studies' (Chapters 2-6)
  • The second section 'Chinese discourse studies' (Chapters 7-9)
  • The third section 'Chinese translation studies' (Chapters 10-12)
  • References
  • Chapter 2. The distribution of null subjects in Chinese discourse: A centering approach
  • Introduction
  • The typology of null subjects in Chinese
  • Referential null subject
  • Non-referential null subject
  • Overview of centering theory
  • Centers
  • Transitions
  • Constraints and rules
  • Specifying centering parameters in Chinese
  • Utterance
  • Discourse segment
  • Cf ranking
  • Rule 1
  • Rule 2
  • Corpus and method
  • Results and analysis: The distributions of null subjects and their antecedents
  • The distribution of null subjects
  • The distribution of antecedents
  • The distribution of null subjects by transition types
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7. Understanding stancetaking through gestures and linguistic practices in a public political debate in Hong Kong
  • Background of the study
  • Methodology
  • Gesture analysis
  • Stancetaking and the stance triangle
  • Data
  • Findings
  • Individual speech
  • Analyzing the individual speech with the Stance Triangle
  • Interim summary for stancetaking in individual speech
  • The debate between Alvin Yeung and Holden Chow
  • Analyzing the debate with the Stance Triangle
  • Interim summary for the debate
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References

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