Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation.
Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be sai...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1990.
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Colección: | Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. ;
vol. 9. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE CONVERSATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Transcriptionand Glossing Conventions; Romanization Conventions; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION : UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE; CHAPTER 2. CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 3. The Establishment of Common Ground in Conversation: the Utterance Particle LA; CHAPTER 4. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ENDINGS IN CONVERSATION: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE LO; CHAPTER 5. EXPECTATION AND NOTEWORTHINESS: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE WO.
- Chapter 6. utterance particles as conversational objectschapter 7. towards a socially constituted linguistics; notes; bibliography; subject index.