In:Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives
Edited by Yun Xiao and Linda Tsung
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 10] 2019
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 15 April 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.10.toc
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Table of contents
ContributorsVII
Chapter 1.Chinese discourse from diverse perspectives: An introduction1
Yun Xiao
Linda Tsung
Chapter 2.New words in contemporary Chinese language use: Linguistic features and formation processes5
Yun Xiao
Chapter 3.Usage-based language change and exemplar representations in Beijing Mandarin Chinese27
Liang Tao
Chapter 4.Contextual variations of internal and external modifications in Chinese requests57
Shuai Li
Chapter 5.Some interactional functions of Yinwei-clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation81
Xiaoting Li
Jie Luo
Chapter 6.Preliminaries to delicate matters: An initial account of “I say to you” sequences and some of its functions in Mandarin Chinese conversations105
Ni-Eng Lim
Chapter 7.Chinese near-synonyms jian (建), zao (造), gai (蓋) ‘to build’ revisited137
Chenhsuan Huang
Chapter 8.Constraints on the collocational behaviors of Chinese words155
Jia Yang
Chapter 9.Genericity and sentences with an AP state complement in Mandarin Chinese177
Fei Ren
Chapter 10.Kinship metaphors in the Chinese construction A shi B zhi fu/mu: Biology and culture as conceptual basis199
Lin Zhu
Chapter 11.The classification of Chinese time expressions from Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives221
Linda Tsung
Lubei Zhang
Chapter 12.Being a Kam in China: Ethnic identity in narratives245
Wei Wang
Lisong Jiang
Meishu He
Chapter 13.Specialized corpora for Chinese language education in Singapore265
Hock Huan Goh
Jinzhan Lin
Chunsheng Zhao
