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From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructThe Function of the Sentence-Final Particle ba as Discourse Marker

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct: The Function of the Sentence-Final Particle ba as... [At present, nearly 20 different meanings have been identified for the sentence-final particle ba. But due to the limitations of the corpora, a comprehensive analysis is still lacking. It is pointed out that Our understanding of ba is not comprehensive enough and the discourse functions of ba in interpersonal communication, the contextual background of its usage, the discourse sequence and the discourse purpose are ignored. By studying the natural spoken corpus of two-way communication and considering the discourse sequence, two neglected functions of the sentence-final particle ba are found as the argumentativity marker and the expectation marker.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

From Minimal Contrast to Meaning ConstructThe Function of the Sentence-Final Particle ba as Discourse Marker

Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics Book Series (volume 9)
Editors: Su, Qi; Zhan, Weidong
Wang, Minfeng
From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct — Sep 26, 2019
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Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Copyright
© Peking University Press 2020
ISBN
978-981-32-9239-0
Pages
3 –18
DOI
10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6_1
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Abstract

[At present, nearly 20 different meanings have been identified for the sentence-final particle ba. But due to the limitations of the corpora, a comprehensive analysis is still lacking. It is pointed out that Our understanding of ba is not comprehensive enough and the discourse functions of ba in interpersonal communication, the contextual background of its usage, the discourse sequence and the discourse purpose are ignored. By studying the natural spoken corpus of two-way communication and considering the discourse sequence, two neglected functions of the sentence-final particle ba are found as the argumentativity marker and the expectation marker.]

Published: Sep 26, 2019

Keywords: Discourse marker; ba (吧); Augumentativity marker; Expectation marker

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