03147nam 2200613Ia 450 991082304240332120200520144314.01-283-17426-X978661317426090-272-8332-X(CKB)2550000000040644(EBL)731656(OCoLC)741492874(SSID)ssj0000943366(PQKBManifestationID)11502968(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000943366(PQKBWorkID)10976968(PQKB)10609122(MiAaPQ)EBC731656(Au-PeEL)EBL731656(CaPaEBR)ebr10484078(CaONFJC)MIL317426(EXLCZ)99255000000004064419900126d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUtterance particles in Cantonese conversation /Kang Kwong Luke1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.19901 online resource (iv, 329 pages)Pragmatics & beyond,0922-842X ;new ser. 9Description based upon print version of record.90-272-5019-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-324) and index.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 WOCHAPTER 6. UTTERANCE PARTICLES AS CONVERSATIONAL OBJECTS CHAPTER 7. TOWARDS A SOCIALLY CONSTITUTED LINGUISTICS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUBJECT INDEXUtterance 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.Pragmatics & beyond ;new ser. 9.Cantonese dialectsParticlesChinese languageDialectsCantonese dialectsParticles.Chinese languageDialects.495.1/7Luke Kang Kwong1622410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823042403321Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation4041786UNINA