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The Chinese Particle Le: Discourse Construction and Pragmatic Marking in Chinese

The Chinese Particle Le: Discourse Construction and Pragmatic Marking in Chinese

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Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics

ChineseLinguistics

ISBN10: 1138970565
ISBN13: 9781138970564
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 9 2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved from a listing of sentences and the discussion of contrastive pairs to a more context and discourse-oriented analysis. The development in recent years of inferential models and situation semantics has opened the way for a renewed study of the use of the Chinese particle LE. This book discusses the Chinese data from a 'mental space' perspective and finally reveals the role so-called Chinese 'sentence LE' plays in the construction and maintenance of discourse.

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