Preliminaries to delicate matters : some functions of “I say to you” sequences in Mandarin Chinese conversations

• Main Author: Lim, Ni-Eng
• Other Authors: Xiao, Yun
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Humanities::Language::Chinese; Conversation Analysis; Interactional Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145803
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The meta-language unit “I say to you” is frequently heard in Mandarin Chinese conversations, and are most commonly expressed as wo gen ni shuo ‘I say to you’, wo gen ni jiang ‘I talk to you’, or wo gaosu ni ‘I tell you’, collectively termed “I-say-to-you” expressions. Quantitative investigations rev...