Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials.

FANG Mei is a Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of Studies of the Chinese Language (----) and the vice-president of Chinese Language Society. She has been working on Chinese grammar and discourse analysis with the functional approach, focusing on the emergent nature of grammatical patterns, pragmaticalization, and grammar in interaction.

1. Discourse Grammar and Studies on Chinese Discourse Grammar 2. Modes of Clausal Correlation and Syntactic Integration 3. Syntactic Integration Function of Zero-subject Clauses 4. Discourse Functions of "Indefinite-subject Sentences" 5. Forms of Action Reference and Their Topic Function 6. Discourse Functions of Verb-copying Constructions 7. S-adverbs and Their Discourse Functions 8. From Quoting to Hedging 9. Discourse Function of Speech Verb Metadiscourse 10. Discourse Cohesion and Orientation Expression 11. Characteristics of Traditional Narratives and Their Impacts on Chinese Grammar