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Tai, James; Hu, Wenze – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1991
Identifies motives for the inversion of various preverbal elements to the end of sentences in Beijing conversational discourse, focusing on such communicative functions and organizational mechanisms as thematization, repair, and afterthought appendage. (32 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns