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Units in Mandarin Conversation : Prosody, Discourse and Grammar.
This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the artificia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1996.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- UNITS IN MANDARIN CONVERSATION PROSODY, DISCOURSE, AND GRAMMAR; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Objectives; 1.2. Organization of the book; 2. Preliminaries and Methodology; 2.1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2.1.1. Discourse and grammar; 2.1.2. The discourse functional orientation; 2.1.3. Properties of information flow; 2.1.3.1. The intonation unit as the basic prosodic unit of language; 2.1.3.2. Information status: Activation states and new, accessible, and given referents.
- 2.1.3.3. Speaker's assumption about the hearer: Identifiability2.1.4. Definitions of grammatical terms; 2.1.4.1. The clause; 2.1.4.2. Full clauses and elliptical clauses; 2.1.4.3. Subclasses of full clauses and elliptical clauses; 2.1.4.3.1. Lexical and pronominal full clauses; 2.1.4.3.2. Types of elliptical clauses; 2.1.4.3.3. Interim summary; 2.1.4.4. Grammatical roles: A, S, and o; 2.1.4.5. Degrees of transitivity; 2.2. Interim summary; 2.3. Methodology; 2.3.1. Database; 2.3.2. Transcribing conventions; 2.3.3. Coding method; 2.4. Summary; 3. Prosodic Properties of Mandarin Intonation Units.
- 3.0. Overview of research in Mandarin prosody3.1. Identifying Mandarin intonation units; 3.2. Universal foundations for the reality of the IU in Mandarin; 3.3. Intonation unit classes; 3.4. Additional language-specific properties of Mandarin intonation units; 3.4.1. Particles and IUs; 3.4.2. The size of the MIU; 3.4.3. Interim summary; 3.5. Summary; 4. Grammatical Structure of the Mandarin Intonation Unit; 4.0. Introduction; 4.1. Methodology; 4.1.1. Coding categories; 4.1.2. Summary and taxonomy of structural types; 4.2. Distribution of unit types; 4.3. Interpreting the results.
- 4.4. Further analysis of the data4.5. Residual issues; 4.6. Summary; 5. The Pragmatics of NP Intonation Units; 5.0. Introduction; 5.1. Taxonomies of NP intonation units; 5.1.1. Attachable vs. detached NPs; 5.1.2. Organizing configurations of NP IUs; 5.1.5. Functional types of NP IUs; 5.1.4. Interim summary; 5.2. The referential type; 5.2.1. Referent introducing; 5.2.2. Referent activating; 5.2.3. Referent framing; 5.2.4. Referent anchoring; 5.2.5. Referent reinforcing; 5.2.6. Referent predicating; 5.2.7. Referent listing; 5.2.8. Referent topicalization; 5.2.9. Referent contrasting.
- 5.2.10. Interim summary5.3. The interactional type; 5.3.1. NP IUs as repetitions; 5.3.2. NP IUs as collaborative finishes; 5.3.3. Interim summary; 5.4. The rhetorical type; 5.5. Interim summary; 5.6. Discussion; 5.7. Summary; 6. The Preferred Clause Structure in Conversation; 6.0. Introduction; 6.1. Verb clause types; 6.2. Coding guidelines; 6.2.1. One verb, one clause; 6.2.2. Polysemous verbs; 6.2.3. Conflated V-O expressions; 6.2.4. Special morpho-syntactic constructions; 6.2.5. Argument types; 6.2.6. Interim summary; 6.3. Distribution of clausal IUs in terms of transitivity.