Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Chinese Language and Discourse
Volume Number: 16
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 20250210

Main Text:

2025. iii, 179 pp.

Table of Contents

Articles

Perceptual confusion of Mandarin coda nasals in societal bilingualism
Ying Chen, Jiajing Zhang, Ran Meng, Xueqin Zhao, Jie Cui, Yaping Chen & Lei Wang | pp. 1–27

Mandarin posture verbs: Cardinality, patterns of usage, and constructional preferences
John Newman & Ying Zhang | pp. 28–54

Creating individual styles through discourse variation in Singapore Mandarin
Ming Chew Teo & Jingxia Lin | pp. 55–80

Response particles in Mandarin conversation: Interplay of function and prosody
Wei Wang | pp. 81–110

词汇多义性和句法连续性： 以汉语“有”为例 [Lexical polysemy and syntactic continuity: The case of you in Chinese]
李富强 | pp. 111–137

Persuasive claims in Chinese real estate advertisements: A case study of presuppositions
Chung Yee Lai, Kwok Yip Cheung & Wan Man Lau | pp. 138–174

Book review

Janet Y. Chen. 2023. The sounds of Mandarin: Learning to speak a national language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960
Reviewed by Norbert Francis | pp. 175–179

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics