Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse : Global Context and Diverse Perspectives.

Intro -- Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- 1. Chinese discourse from diverse perspectives -- References -- 2. New words in contemporary Chinese language use -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language change and lexicalization: Processes and tendency -- 3. Studies on Chinese word: Structure, length, and constraints -- 4. The study -- 4.1 Word length -- 4.2 Word length patterns -- 4.3 Word-internal structures -- 4.4 Word formation processes -- 4.5 The case of 互 网+ 'Internet-plus' -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3. Usage based language change and exemplar representations in Beijing Mandarin Chinese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mandarin Chinese and the current study -- 2.1 Mandarin Chinese pertaining to the present study -- 2.2 The current study -- 3. Phono-syntactic conspiracy and grammaticalization -- 4. Usage-caused grammatical change -- 4.1 The data and the specific construction of this study -- 4.2 Usage frequency, consonant lenition and an optional allophone -- 4.3 Tone sandhi, the rhotic approximant and exemplar representations of /sh/ -- 4.4 Language variation, grammaticalization, and language change -- 4.4.1 Misperception and transcription -- 4.4.2 Impact of 普 Putonghua 'common language' -- 4.5 Interim summary -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Contextual variations of internal and external modifications in Chinese requests -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 Request modifications and contextual variations -- 2.2 Internal and external modifications in Chinese requests -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Instrument -- 3.3 Procedures -- 3.4 Data analysis -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions, limitations, and future research -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Appendix A. Request scenarios in the Oral Discourse Completion Test -- 5. Some interactional functions of 'Yinwei'-clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and methodological background -- 3. 'Yinwei'-clauses as accounts for speakers' prior actions -- 3.1 Accounts for disagreements -- 3.2 Accounts for assertion -- 4. 'Yinwei'-clause as parentheticals to provide background information -- 4.1 Within an ongoing TCU -- 4.2 Between TCUs -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 6. Preliminaries to delicate matters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Some preliminary quantitative results -- 4. Analysis of some 'I-say-to-you' sequences -- 4.1 Prefacing delicate matters with 'I say to you' -- 4.2 'Preparing the ground' with 'I say to you' -- 5. Achieving interactional goals with 'I-say-to-you' sequences -- 6. Concluding remarks and further discussions -- References -- Appendix I. Transcription conventions -- 7. Chinese near-synonyms 'jian' (建), 'zao' ( ), 'gai' ( ) 'to build' revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Definition -- 2.2 Data sources -- 2.3 Data collection -- 2.4 Data coding -- 2.4.1 Word length of the object NP -- 2.4.2 Preverbal locative phrase -- 2.4.3 Building types -- 2.5 Statistical analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 The interpretation of jian -- 3.2 The interpretation of zao -- 3.3 The interpretation of gai -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix 1. Token exclusions -- Appendix 2. Data coding schemes -- 8. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese near-synonyms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Selecting near-synonyms for analysis -- 3.2 Identifying typical collocates -- 3.3 Data for the study -- 4. Constraints on the collocational behaviors of synonyms -- 4.1 Grammatical constraint -- 4.2 Semantic constraint.

4.3 Prosodic constraint -- 4.4 Stylistic constraint -- 4.5 Pragmatic constraint -- 5. Discussion and pedagogical implications -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 9. Genericity and sentences with an AP state complement in Mandarin Chinese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The semantics of AP complements in Chinese SC sentences -- 2.1 Event-oriented AP complements -- 2.2 Participant-oriented AP complements -- 3. The generic domain and interpretation of Chinese SC sentences -- 3.1 Generic quantification over situations -- 3.2 The generic reading of Chinese SC sentences -- 4. The generic/episodic interpretation of Chinese SC sentences with AP complements -- 4.1 Repeatable events and sum events -- 4.2 The role of AP complements and pragmatic knowledge -- 4.3 The generic interpretation of other constructions in Chinese -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 10. Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A 'shi' B 'zhi fu/mu' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data for analysis -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Metaphor identification -- 3.2 Statistical procedure -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Research object and A has [+human] -- 4.2 Research object and B has [+human] -- 4.3 Research object and A has [+specific] -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 11. The classification of Chinese time expressions from Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Time expressions: Extent -- 2.1 Definite time -- 2.2 Indefinite time -- 2.3 Duration time -- 2.4 Frequency time -- 3. Time expression: Location -- 3.1 Definite temporal location -- 3.2 Indefinite temporal location -- 3.3 Absolute temporal location -- 3.4 Relative temporal location -- 3.5 Rest temporal location -- 3.6 Motion temporal location -- 4. Time expressions and classfications -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Being a Kam in China -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identities in narrative.

3. Interview participants -- 4. Power relations in interaction -- 5. Representations of the exterior and interior worlds -- 6. Membership categorisation -- 7. Performance devices -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- 13. Specialised corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Specialised corpora for language education -- 3. Data collection -- 4. Data processing -- 5. Results of the Written Corpus -- 6. Results of the Spoken Corpus -- 7. Application of the corpora -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A. List of Parts-of-Speech, sub-types and examples -- Appendix B. List of sentence types and sentence patterns -- Index.

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