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題名 Structuring of information flow in Mandarin Chinese
中文的讯息结构作者 Chui, Kawai
徐嘉慧貢獻者 政大英文系 關鍵詞 Mandarin Chinese 日期 2005-01 上傳時間 10-九月-2012 11:14:47 (UTC+8) 摘要 In this study, I investigate how Mandarin Chinese speakers manage the information flow of nominal referents across argument roles in different types of discourse, in trying to understand the relationship between Chinese discourse and the shape of its grammar. One conversation and two types of oral narratives are taken as distinct types of speaking for purposes of examining the potential text-type difference against information status. The unique and recurrent patterning of information status across conversation and narrative discourse suggests a pragmatic motivation for word order. The preverbal roles, be it A, S or O, have a great propensity for given information; the postverbal roles, either S or O, maintain a much higher incidence of new information. This lack of accusative or ergative alignment of argument roles has a parallel in grammar where the major syntactic processes treat A, S and O in the same way, suggesting an iconicity between discourse and grammar in Mandarin Chinese. 關聯 Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 33(1), 34-67 資料類型 article dc.contributor 政大英文系 en dc.creator (作者) Chui, Kawai en dc.creator (作者) 徐嘉慧 zh_TW dc.date (日期) 2005-01 - dc.date.accessioned 10-九月-2012 11:14:47 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 10-九月-2012 11:14:47 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 10-九月-2012 11:14:47 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/53545 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) In this study, I investigate how Mandarin Chinese speakers manage the information flow of nominal referents across argument roles in different types of discourse, in trying to understand the relationship between Chinese discourse and the shape of its grammar. One conversation and two types of oral narratives are taken as distinct types of speaking for purposes of examining the potential text-type difference against information status. The unique and recurrent patterning of information status across conversation and narrative discourse suggests a pragmatic motivation for word order. The preverbal roles, be it A, S or O, have a great propensity for given information; the postverbal roles, either S or O, maintain a much higher incidence of new information. This lack of accusative or ergative alignment of argument roles has a parallel in grammar where the major syntactic processes treat A, S and O in the same way, suggesting an iconicity between discourse and grammar in Mandarin Chinese. en dc.language zh_TW en dc.language.iso en_US - dc.relation (關聯) Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 33(1), 34-67 en dc.subject (關鍵詞) Mandarin Chinese en dc.title (題名) Structuring of information flow in Mandarin Chinese en dc.title (題名) 中文的讯息结构 - dc.type (資料類型) article en
