Junwen Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Junwen Lee is involved.
Articles
2025 A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English hor Pragmatics 35:3, pp. 369–394 | Article
The Colloquial Singapore English or Singlish particle hor has been observed to convey different pragmatic effects when pronounced with either a rising or falling intonation contour. In this paper, I propose, using a relevance-theoretic framework, that hor encodes the procedural content that the… read more
2016 Cracking the chestnut: How intonation interacts with procedural meaning in Colloquial Singapore English Lah Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.), pp. 59–80 | Article
This chapter argues against previous analyses of the Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) particle lah. While homonymic approaches (e.g. Wong 2004) conflate pragmatic function and semantic meaning, unitary approaches (e.g. Gupta 2006) ignore the systematic differences in function that correlate with… read more