Discourse connectives and discourse structure in Mandarin Chinese

Discourse connectives are regarded as the main linguistic device for the writer to guide the reader's inference toward the texts. Conversely, the reader's interpretation of the logical flow of the discourse is largely based on the distribution of discourse connectives. My primary concern in this research is to explore the relationship between discourse connectives and patterns of inference in a coherent plan in order to establish the discourse structure of a text. This study performs three important tasks: an investigation of discourse connectives in Mandarin Chinese beyond the syntactic level, an investigation of relationship patterns in a coherent plan, and an analysis of the contribution of connectives to a higher level of discourse structure.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Kuo, Pin-Min

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cheng, Chin-Chuan

• Language, Linguistics
• Literature, Asian
• Language, General

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1994 Kuo, Pin-Min

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9416389
(UMI)AAI9416389

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19084