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Right Dislocation in Cantonese: An Emotion-Intensifying Device

verfasst von : Sophia Yat Mei Lee, Christy Choi Ting Lai

Erschienen in: Chinese Lexical Semantics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper explores the emotive function of Cantonese right dislocation based on language samples in a large spoken Cantonese database. Right dislocation is found to be highly associated with emotion expressions. In particular, explicit emotion words always appear in the first part of right dislocation. We argue that right dislocation is used as a focus marking device for highlighting emotion information and intensifying emotions. Therefore, right dislocation can serve as one of the linguistic cues for identifying implicit emotions.

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Metadaten
Titel
Right Dislocation in Cantonese: An Emotion-Intensifying Device
verfasst von
Sophia Yat Mei Lee
Christy Choi Ting Lai
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_35

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