Action formation with janwai in Cantonese Chinese conversation

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Liesenfeld, Andreas Maria
• مؤلفون آخرون: K. K. Luke
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102660; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47757
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis describes action formation and ascription featuring the Cantonese Chinese discourse marker janwai ("because") in naturally-occurring Cantonese talk-in-interaction. Conceived as a conversation analytic exploratory data analysis, the study examines the use of this utterance as pa...