Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation [[electronic resource] /] / Kang Kwong Luke
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| Autore: |
Luke Kang Kwong
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| Titolo: |
Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation [[electronic resource] /] / Kang Kwong Luke
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 495.1/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cantonese dialects - Particles |
| Chinese language - Dialects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 ( |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation |
| ISBN: | 1-283-17426-X |
| 9786613174260 | |
| 90-272-8332-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456660603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 9.