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Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse

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Authors:
  1. Saina Wuyun

    1. Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China

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  • Addresses the question: “What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language?”
  • Presents a computational approach to Chinese discourse analysis
  • Shows how discourse analysis contributes to syntactic and semantic studies of bei and ba sentences
  • Offers a comprehensive portrait of the Chinese language—its discourse, syntax, and semantics
  • Serves as inspiration for those interested in discourse analysis and Chinese special sentences

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. An Introduction to the Book

    • Saina Wuyun
    Pages 1-7

  3. A Refined Centering Theory

    • Saina Wuyun
    Pages 9-47

  4. A Centering Analysis of Discourse with Chinese Bei Passive

    • Saina Wuyun
    Pages 49-100

  5. A Centering Analysis of Chinese Disposal Ba Construction

    • Saina Wuyun
    Pages 101-140

  6. Ranking of Forward-Looking Centers in Chinese

    • Saina Wuyun
    Pages 141-170

  7. Concluding Remarks

    • Saina Wuyun
    Pages 171-177

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 179-190
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About this book

This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language? To do so, it presents a centering theory-based computational approach to discourse analysis concerning Chinese bei passive sentences, disposal ba constructions, ditransitive gei sentences, and locative fang sentences. The book first discusses the use of discourse analysis in the context of bei and ba constructions and then demonstrates how discourse analysis can contribute to the syntactic and semantic studies of these sentences. It also examines the various thematic roles differentiated in these four special sentence patterns, namely agent, recipient, theme/patient, and locative, and reveals the various degrees of discourse accessibility of these thematic roles. Exploring the correlation between centering theory and Chinese discourse, the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in discourse analysis and Chinese special sentential structures, especially the formalapproaches to these issues.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China

    Saina Wuyun

About the author

Dr. Saina Wuyun received her doctoral degree in Linguistics from the City University of Hong Kong. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Shaanxi Normal University and is currently researching in the field of formal discourse analysis and the syntax of archaic Chinese. She has published papers in journals such as Lingua, Language and Linguistics, and Chinese Language and Discourse. She is an executive member of the council for Associação de Caracteres Chineses de Macau.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse

  • Authors: Saina Wuyun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8666-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8665-1Published: 11 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8668-2Published: 12 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8666-8Published: 10 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 190

  • Number of Illustrations: 150 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Linguistics, general

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