Elastic language in TV discussion discourse: A case study of ba in Chinese.

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Elastic language in TV discussion discourse: A case study of ba in Chinese.

This paper investigates the elasticity of the pragmatic particle ba in Mandarin Chinese, based on TV discussion data. It provides refreshing theoretic explanations of ba: the elasticity manifests through fluidity and stretchability of ba’s meanings and functions, and its strategic use. Ba has the ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zhang, Grace
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54312

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