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Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora

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Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora - Wang, Chunyan
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Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and ...

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Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora 2020, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780367519049

Paperback

Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora 2016, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138202535

Hardcover