Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation
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Utterance particles in Cantonese conversation
（Pragmatics & beyond : new series, 9）
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990
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Utterance particles in Cantonese
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Includes bibliography (p. [313]-324) and index subject (p. [325]-329)
"This book has its origins in my Ph. D. thesis written for the University of York, Britain"--P.i
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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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowlegements
- 2. Transcription and glossing conventions
- 3. Romanization conventions
- 4. Introduction: Utterance particles in Cantonese
- 5. Conversation and Conversation Analysis
- 6. The Establishment of Common Ground in Conversation: The Utterance particle LA
- 7. The Accomplissement of Endings in Conversation: The Utterance Particle LO
- 8. Expectation and Noteworthiness: The Utterance Particle WO
- 9. Utterance Particles as Conversational Objects
- 10. Towards a Socially Constituted Linguistics
- 11. Notes
- 12. Bibliography
- 13. Subject Index
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