Mei-Chi Tsai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mei-Chi Tsai is involved.

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Wang, Yu-Fang, Mei-Chi Tsai, Wayne Schams and Chi-Ming Yang 2013 Restrictiveness, exclusivity, adversativity, and mirativity: Mandarin Chinese zhishi as an affective diminutive marker in spoken discourse Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 181–228 | Article
Mandarin Chinese zhishi (similar to English ‘only’), comprised of the adverb zhi and the copula shi, can act as an adverb (ADV) or a discourse marker (DM). This study analyzes the role of zhishi in spoken discourse, based on the methodological and theoretical principles of interactional linguistics… read more
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