Ni-Eng Lim

orcid.org/0000-0003-2816-822X

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ni-Eng Lim is involved.

Journal

Chinese Language and Discourse

An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798

Title

Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II

Edited by Ni-Eng Lim

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 10:2 (2019) v, 175 pp.

Articles (8) | Order by:

Lim, Ni-Eng 2026 Review of Fisac & Moratto (2024): Fundamental Structures of the Chinese Language: Topic-Comment and Other Key Structures Chinese Language and Discourse 17:1, pp. 156–159 | Review

Li, Shushu and Ni-Eng Lim 2019 “不会 VP 吧”在互动会话中的求证行为和反期待推测 [Seeking verification for unexpected inference using “buhui VP ba”] Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II, Lim, Ni-Eng (ed.), pp. 241–262 | Article

本研究采用会话分析和互动语言学的研究方法和视角，对自然口语会话中“不会 VP 吧”这一构式的互动功能进行了微观分析。分析结果显示，“不会 VP 吧”常出现于某种特有的会话序列环境（interactional sequence），即是说话人利用“不会 VP 吧”的求证功能来证实自己的一种推测。然而，由于这种推测违反了社会常规（social norm），所以又是不符合说话人本身期待值（expectation）的。因此，可以说“不会 VP 吧”亦表达了一种针对 VP 的“反期待”（against expectation）的评价立场（evaluative stance）。 read more

Lim, Ni-Eng 2019 Chapter 6. Preliminaries to delicate matters: Some functions of “I say to you” sequences in Mandarin Chinese conversations Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun and Linda Tsung (eds.), pp. 105–136 | Chapter

The meta-language unit “I say to you” is frequently heard in Mandarin Chinese conversations, and are most commonly expressed as wo gen ni shuo ‘I say to you’, wo gen ni jiang ‘I talk to you’, or wo gaosu ni ‘I tell you’, collectively termed “I-say-to-you” expressions. Quantitative investigations… read more

Lim, Ni-Eng 2019 Introduction: Recent developments of Conversation Analysis in Chinese Conversation Analysis in Chinese: Part II, Lim, Ni-Eng (ed.), pp. 127–132 | Introduction

Lim, Ni-Eng 2014 Review of Pan & Kádár (2013): Chinese Discourse and Interaction Language and Dialogue 4:2, pp. 323–333 | Review

Lim, Ni-Eng and Huaqing Hong 2012 Intensifiers as stance markers: A corpus study on genre variations in Mandarin Chinese Chinese Language and Discourse 3:2, pp. 129–166 | Article

While the study of Mandarin Chinese intensifiers has been prolific, the methodologies used have been limited to comparative and grammaticalization studies, revealing little about the discourse-pragmatic usages of individual intensifiers. Utilizing a balanced corpus composed of 15 different… read more

Lim, Ni-Eng 2010 Review of Weiping & Zhaolin (2009): Linguistics & Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Chinese Language and Discourse 1:1, pp. 149–150 | Review

Lim, Ni-Eng 2010 Review of Tao (2009): Computational Simulation in Evolutionary Linguistics: A Study on Language Emergence Chinese Language and Discourse 1:1, pp. 151–152 | Review