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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL MARKERS IN WRITTEN AND SPOKEN MANDARIN CHINESE: The Interaction of Semantics, Syntax, and Pragmatics

Author: Hsu, Kylie
SKU: PMRT.GEN.3651.01459

$198.85

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780773483651
Publication Date: 1998
Condition: New

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Presents a study of Mandarin grammar through discourse analysis by investigating temporal markers such as zheng, zhengzai, and zai to describe the temporality of ongoing situations, events, or actions. The temporal markers are analyzed in terms of semantic import, syntactic constraints and pragmatic functions.

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