Chunyan Wang

Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora

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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 a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-315-47371-0
EAN: 9781315473710
Produktnummer: 21955048
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'832 KB
Abbildungen: 119 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 14 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 105 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

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.