Textual and contextual contrast connection: A study of Chinese contrastive markers across different text types

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1775-1815

  Wang, Yu Fang ^a   Tsai, Pi Hua ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrastive markers; Discourse; Formal informal; Hallidayan framework; Mandarin Chinese; Text types

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548494345     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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