Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora

Chunyan Wang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-20253-5 (ISBN)

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Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

Chunyan Wang is an associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include data-driven learning, second language acquisition, language teaching and language testing.

List of diagrams. List of tables. Acknowledgement. List of abbreviations. Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Literature ReviewChapter 3 Research Design and MethodologyChapter 4 Data DistributionChapter 5 Patterning Features of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner CorporaChapter 6 Semantic Preference and Semantic Prosody of Intensifiers Chapter 7 Conclusions and ImplicationsAppendices. References. Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	China Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	105 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white; 119 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-138-20253-3 / 1138202533
ISBN-13	978-1-138-20253-5 / 9781138202535
Zustand	Neuware