Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. An introduction to the book
- Chapter 2. A refined Centering Theory
- Chapter 3. A Centering analysis of discourse with Chinese bei passive
- Chapter 4. A centering analysis of Chinese disposal ba construction
- Chapter 5. Ranking of forward-looking centers in Chinese
- Chapter 6. The influence of temporality interpretation on discourse coherence
- Chapter 7. Concluding remarks