Action formation with janwai in Cantonese Chinese conversation

This thesis describes action formation and ascription featuring the Cantonese Chinese discourse marker janwai ("because") in naturally-occurring Cantonese talk-in-interaction. Conceived as a conversation analytic exploratory data analysis, the study examines the use of this utterance as pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liesenfeld, Andreas Maria
Other Authors: K. K. Luke
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102660
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47757