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A study of the interactional function of the tag question dui bu dui in Mandarin conversation from a multimodal perspective
DownloadFall 2015
This thesis investigates the interactional function of the tag question dui bu dui (‘right?’) in Mandarin conversation and the prosodic and visual features involved in its production. Adopting the methodology of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the present study explores the...
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Spring 2020
In everyday conversation, two participants may collaboratively produce an utterance. Previous research has documented the syntactic structures and the interactional functions of collaboratively constructed turns/TCUs (CCTs) in languages such as English, Japanese and Finnish (Lerner, 1991, 1996;...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. People across the world are using English in their daily lives--but how are they doing this, and why? This project will investigate conflicts between emerging permissive and older purist ideologies of English in Germany. German young people seem to be driving the emergence...
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Fall 2019
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,...
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Fall 2015
This thesis investigates the interactional functions of yinwei-clauses in Mandarin conversation. Adopting the methodology of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the present study explores the function of yinwei-clause in 11 hours of everyday Mandarin conversational data....