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Fall 2012

Qin, Longlu

In Mandarin Chinese, the particle ne has been studied using written text, constructed examples, and hypothetical discourse settings. However, these studies overlooked the interaction and relationships that exist between speakers when considering the usage of ne. In this thesis, we analyze the...

Fall 2020

Noda, Minako

Japanese kedo has traditionally been described and taught using two clauses where the kedo clause forms a contrastive relationship with the following main clause (Geyer 2007a; Geyer 2007b, Hatasa et al 2010; Iwasaki 2013). However, studies have shown that kedo also appears in other grammatical...

Fall 2010

Walker, Neill Lindsey

This study explores the role of speaker and listener gaze in the production of recipient responses, often called backchannels or, in Japanese, aizuchi. Using elicited narrative audio/video data, speaker gaze and recipient response behaviours were first analyzed quantitatively. The results showed...

1998

Noce, Laura.

Fall 2019

Vukadinovich, Stefana

This study examines the use of imperative turns in naturalistic Mandarin interaction. Imperatives in Mandarin are defined as sentences expressing a command (e.g., Chao 1968; Li & Thompson 1981; Sun 2006). Previous research has described that imperatives can be used as requests, demands,...

Fall 2019

Li, Lin

This thesis examines two paintings on the subject of the Red Cliff boat trip (Chibi zhouyou) both made in 1943 by the modern Chinese ink painter, Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). In the history of Chinese painting, the Red Cliff is an unfading memorial in the collective memory of Chinese literati, and was...

Fall 2018

Zhang, Yuan

Decades of efforts by Sinologists like Marcel Granet, A.C. Graham, and Roger Ames, have been put into explicating the notion of “correlative thinking” in the Laozi and other early Chinese texts. There is, however, no consensus among scholars of the field about exactly what they mean by the term...

Fall 2021

Danzinger, Matthew

The publication of Kawaji Ryūkō’s (川路柳虹, 1888-1959) Shinshi yonshō (新詩四章 “Four New Poems”) in the journal Shijin (詩人) in 1907 has been described as pioneering the genre of Japanese free-verse poetry. This poetry differed from previous Japanese poetic works in both form and content by eschewing...

Spring 2019

Ngan, Li Ling

This thesis examines Cantonese in Sinophone literature, and the time- and place- specific memories of Cantonese speaking communities in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia after the year 2000. Focusing on the literary works by Wong Bik-wan (1961-), Yeng Pway Ngon (1947-) and Li Zishu (1971-), this...

Fall 2016

Oralova, Gaisha

This thesis focuses on one of the most frequently used response tokens in Mandarin - en “mm”. Through examining 6 hours of everyday spontaneous Mandarin conversation, this paper explores the interactional functions of the response token en in different sequential and situational environments, as...