Download or read book The Utterance Particle ja in Spoken and Written Cantonese written by Mee Yee Katie Chu and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation written by Kang Kwong Luke and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them; namely, LA (la55), LO (lo55), and WO (wo44). Adopting a set of theoretical assumptions and analytical methods in the tradition of Conversation Analysis within an ethnomethodological framework, an attempt is made to approach these objects by examining them in the context of interactional details in naturally occurring conversations. This book presents original accounts of, and fresh insights into these utterance particles in Cantonese. But it also raises theoretical and methodological questions of more general interest. These include, among other things, the status of data and evidence in the analysis of language, and the possibility of a socially constituted linguistics.

Download or read book Sentence Particles in Cantonese written by Helen Kwok and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Use of the Utterance Particle Ne in Cantonese Speech written by Yuen Lee Li and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Intonational Morphology written by John C. Wakefield and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the morphological properties of intonation, building on past research to support the long-recognized relationship between the functions and meanings of discourse particles and the functions and meanings of intonation. The morphological status of intonation has been debated for decades, and this book provides evidence from the literature combined with new and compelling empirical evidence to show that specific intonational forms correspond to specific segmental discourse particles. Based on the conclusion that intonation is in the lexicon, it proposes syntactic positions for intonational meanings using a cartographic approach. It also describes how intonation is represented in speakers' minds, which has important implications for first and second language acquisition as well as for theories and approaches to artificial speech recognition and production. This book is of interest to theoretical and applied linguists, as well as to anyone whose research and interests relate in any way to intonation.

Download or read book A Tentative Framework for Speech Act Description of the Utterance Particle in Conversational Cantonese written by John Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decoding the Hidden A Gender written by Wan-Fong Amy Tam and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Decoding the Hidden A-gender: the Gender Factor in Cantonese Utterance-final Particles" by Wan-fong, Amy, Tam, 譚韻芳, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This research targets the gender differences in the use of utterance-final particles in Cantonese with respect to the act of sajiao (撒嬌) under the speech act framework proposed by J. L. Austin. Sajiao is defined as the adorable petulance of a spoiled child or young woman who seeks material or immaterial benefits from an unwilling listener. It is hypothesized in this study that the use of utterance-final particles is not generally gender-linked. It is further suggested that some of the utterance-final particles are loaded with gender features which could feminize the utterances, thus performing the act of sajiao. This research has identified five utterance-final particles, including a newly emerged particle that has never been examined in the previous literature, which are believed to be gender-linked, namely 添 "tim1," LU "lu3," 噃 "bo3," 喇喎 "laa3wo3" and 咖呵 "gaa3ho2," and it has also analyzed meanings that are denoted by these five particles and the two genders' usage of them. The investigator proposed that the first three particles could help soften the tone of an utterance, while at the same time, they add cuteness, so that the speakers present a more amiable impression of themselves, and thus could help them please or flatter the opposite sex. The two utterance-final particle clusters 喇喎 "laa3wo3" and 咖呵 "gaa3ho2," on the other hand, are related to implicit demands. By skillfully employing these seemingly softer particles, female speakers could make the men who are appeared to be stronger to yield and satisfy their demands without creating any hard feelings. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4839501 Subjects: Cantonese dialects - Particles - Sex differences

Download or read book A Conversation Analytic Approach to the Study of Utterance Particles in Cantonese written by Kang Kwong Luke and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Utterance Particles in Hong Kong Cantonese written by Yee Mei Hui and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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