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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456660603321

Autore

Luke Kang Kwong

Titolo

Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation [[electronic resource] /] / Kang Kwong Luke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990

ISBN

1-283-17426-X

9786613174260

90-272-8332-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 9

Disciplina

495.1/7

Soggetti

Cantonese dialects - Particles

Chinese language - Dialects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-324) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to



conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them; namely, LA (la55), LO (