Aspects of Discourse Structure in Mandarin Chinese

Description

This study examines aspects of discourse, including thematic structure, information structure, and word order. Data consists of transcriptions of interviews with 20 Mandarin speaking informants in both institutional and non-institutional settings. Texts of three interviews, representing narrative, expository, and procedural discourse types, are intensively examined and appended. In dealing with thematic structure, emphasis is placed on the sentence-initial devices used to establish the point of departure and on the implications of thematic structure on the conceptual and cognitive processes of Chinese speakers. In discussing information structure particular attention is paid to the sentence-final devices used by speakers to indicate the focuses of their communicative interest. The study of word order is directed towards the intra-sentential dynamism, which is governed by a number of principles. The author states that all of these principles suggest a strong and significant isomorphism between word order on one hand, and real-world events and human perception on the other. P1010001.pdf P1010002.pdf P1010003.pdf P1010004.pdf P1010005.pdf P1010006.pdf P1010007.pdf P1010008.pdf P1010009.pdf P1010010.pdf P1010011.pdf P1010012.pdf P1010013.pdf P1010014.pdf P1010015.pdf P1010016.pdf P1010017.pdf P1010018.pdf P1010019.pdf P1010020.pdf P1010021.pdf P1010022.pdf P1010023.pdf P1010024.pdf P1010025.pdf P1010026.pdf P1010027.pdf P1010028.pdf P1010029.pdf P1010030.pdf P1010031.pdf P1010032.pdf P1010033.pdf P1010034.pdf P1010035.pdf P1010036.pdf P1010037.pdf P1010038.pdf P1010039.pdf P1010040.pdf P1010041.pdf P1010042.pdf P1010043.pdf P1010044.pdf P1010045.pdf P1010046.pdf P1010047.pdf P1010048.pdf P1010049.pdf P1010050.pdf P1010051.pdf P1010052.pdf P1010053.pdf P1010054.pdf P1010055.pdf P1010056.pdf P1010057.pdf P1010058.pdf P1010059.pdf P1010060.pdf P1010061.pdf P1010062.pdf P1010063.pdf P1010064.pdf P1010065.pdf P1010066.pdf P1010067.pdf P1010068.pdf P1010069.pdf P1010070.pdf P1010071.pdf P1010072.pdf P1010073.pdf P1010074.pdf P1010075.pdf P1010076.pdf P1010077.pdf P1010078.pdf P1010079.pdf P1010080.pdf P1010081.pdf P1010082.pdf P1010083.pdf P1010084.pdf P1010085.pdf P1010086.pdf P1010087.pdf P1010088.pdf P1010089.pdf P1010090.pdf P1010091.pdf P1010092.pdf P1010093.pdf P1010094.pdf P1010095.pdf P1010096.pdf P1010097.pdf P1010098.pdf P1010099.pdf P1010100.pdf P1010101.pdf P1010102.pdf P1010103.pdf P1010104.pdf P1010105.pdf P1010106.pdf P1010107.pdf P1010108.pdf P1010109.pdf P1010110.pdf P1010111.pdf P1010112.pdf P1010113.pdf P1010114.pdf P1010115.pdf P1010116.pdf P1010117.pdf P1010118.pdf P1010119.pdf P1010120.pdf P1010121.pdf P1010122.pdf P1010123.pdf P1010124.pdf P1010125.pdf P1010126.pdf P1010127.pdf P1010128.pdf P1010129.pdf P1010130.pdf P1010131.pdf P1010132.pdf P1010133.pdf P1010134.pdf P1010135.pdf P1010136.pdf P1010137.pdf P1010138.pdf P1010139.pdf P1010140.pdf