Patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner corpora / / Chunyan Wang

• Autore: Wang Chunyan <1971-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Disciplina: 428.0089/951
• Soggetto topico: Chinese language - English speakers; Chinese language - Grammar; Chinese language - Grammar - Study and teaching; Chinese language - Adverbials - Study and teaching; Chinese language - Semantics - Study and teaching
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Research design and methodology -- 4. Data distribution -- 5. Patterning features of intensifiers in Chinese learner corpora -- 6. Semantic preference and semantic prosody of intensifiers -- 7. Conclusions and implications.
• Sommario/riassunto: Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study adopts the method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA), and is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.
• Titolo autorizzato: Patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner corpora
• ISBN: 1-315-47371-2; 1-315-47373-9; 1-315-47372-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154868303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: China perspectives.