Wayne Schams
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wayne Schams is involved.
Articles
2020 Mandarin Chinese buguo (‘but’) as a metacoherence marker in TV/radio interview talks Language and Linguistics 21:1, pp. 104–144 | Article
This study examines the uses of Mandarin Chinese buguo ‘but’ as a contrastive discourse marker (CM) in spoken discourse. The data were taken from casual conversations, TV/radio single-interviewee interviews and TV panel news interviews. We found that two main types of the CM buguo were used to… read more
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