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Abbott, Gary Steven.

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The function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narrative.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narrative./
Author:	Abbott, Gary Steven.
Description:	177 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 31-02, page: 0558.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International31-02.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1350301

The function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narrative.
Abbott, Gary Steven.

The function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narrative. - 177 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 31-02, page: 0558.

Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University, 1992.

Mandarin is often described as a topic prominent language: a language which places more importance and prominence on the sentence topic than the subject of any given sentence. Furthermore, it is wrong to assume that the use of sentence topics in Mandarin is arbitrary. This thesis, then, attempts to determine what discourse parameters influence the function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narratives.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narrative.
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520 $a Mandarin is often described as a topic prominent language: a language which places more importance and prominence on the sentence topic than the subject of any given sentence. Furthermore, it is wrong to assume that the use of sentence topics in Mandarin is arbitrary. This thesis, then, attempts to determine what discourse parameters influence the function of sentence topics in oral and written Mandarin narratives.
520 $a To answer this, a quantitative discourse analysis was done on three oral texts and six written texts. Using the model of information flow as presented in Prince 1981, each sentence topic from the texts was identified as reflecting either brand new, evoked, or inferred information. These were then correlated with three other discourse parameters--animacy, episode boundaries, and topic persistence--in order to determine patterns of sentence topic use. The end results indicate that sentence topics do indeed have characteristic functions within a text.
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