Action formation with janwai in Cantonese Chinese conversation

• 主要作者: Liesenfeld, Andreas Maria
• 其他作者: K. K. Luke
• 格式: Theses and Dissertations
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2019
• 主題: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102660; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47757

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...