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Chinese Language and Discourse

Volume 2, Issue 2 (2011)

2011. iii, 161 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 January 2012

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.2.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Do gestures compensate for the omission of motion expression in speech? Kawai Chui	153–167
Lexicalization of intensifiers: Two X-shi constructions in spoken Mandarin Aaron Yao-Ren Wu and Yung-O Biq	168–197
The bei passive and its discourse motivations Feng-hsi Liu	198–231
In search of poetic discourse of classical Chinese poetry: An imagery-based stylistic analysis of Liu Yong and Su Shi Alex C. Fang, Wan-yin Li and Jing Cao	232–249
Disentangling the meanings of two Cantonese evidential particles John C. Wakefield	250–293
Book Reviews
Review of Shi (2011): 历史比较语言学：方音比较与层次 Reviewed by Daming Xu	295–300
Review of Tsou & You (2010): 全球华语新词语词典 Reviewed by Danjie Su	301–306
Review of (2005/2006): Language Situation in China Reviewed by Yun Xiao	307–309
Review of Lee (2003): Chinese Media, Global Context Reviewed by Chi-hua Hsiao	310–313

Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse studies

Sino-Tibetan languages