1st Edition
The Discourse Marker ni zhidao (“You Know”) in Chinese Spontaneous Speech
228 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Drawing on media interview materials, this book takes a holistic approach to examining the Chinese discourse marker ni zhidao (你知道, meaning “you know”), thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of discourse markers in Chinese language use and broader linguistic studies.
Using a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses, the study explores the marker’s... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Review of Literature 3. Methodology: Turning Speech into Evidence 4. Quantifying Syntactic-Prosodic Patterns 5. Deconstructing ni zhidao: A Multidimensional Interface 6. Toward a Multidimensional Architecture of ni zhidao
Biography
Yi Shan is a professor at Jiaxing University, China. His research focuses on pragmatics, particularly discourse analysis, research methods in linguistics, and health translation.
Weiwei Chu is a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, China. Her research interests include discourse analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and translation.
