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- Title
External information processing versus property ascertaining: a discourse-pragmatic study of three yes/ no question particles in Shishan (Hainan Island, China).
- Authors
Xiang, Xuehua
- Abstract
Drawing on naturally occurring conversation, the present study examines three utterance-final yes/ no question particles, mi, o, and ang, in Shishan, a dialect of Lingao of the Tai-Kadai language family, spoken on northern Hainan Island (China). Both mi and o signal the proposition as deriving from an external information source (primarily preceding discourse). Mi marks simple, linear knowledge accruement/thought progression, based on external information, including plain registration of new information and simple inference. O signals conflicts between externally derived information vis-à-vis the speaker's pre-existing knowledge/expectation. Ang constructs a genuine query for unknown information, ascertaining whether the quality/characteristic, as coded in the predicate of the utterance, can ascribe to (i.e., ascribable as a property of) the entity represented by the sentential subject. The meaning of 'property ascertaining' gives rise to the use of ang in various presequences (cf. Schegloff 1988).
- Subjects
HAINAN Sheng (China); CHINA; BE language; SIMILARITY (Language learning); TAI-Kadai languages; QUESTIONING
- Publication
Text & Talk, 2012, Vol 32, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
1860-7330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/text-2012-0013