The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.

Chris Shei studied at Taiwan, Cambridge and Edinburgh and has worked at Swansea University since 2003. He teaches and researches in linguistics and translation studies and is particularly interested in the use of computer and web resources for linguistic research, language education and translating. He is the General Editor for two new Routledge series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis and Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation.

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction: Discourse Analysis in the Chinese Context Chris Shei Part I. Approaches to Chinese discourse 1 Chinese conversation analysis Kang-Kwong Luke 2 Critical analysis of Chinese discourse Weixiao Wei 3 Sociolinguistic approaches to Chinese discourse Wei Wang 4 Analyzing Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Integrating Social Semiotic and Conceptual Metaphor Theories William Dezheng Feng Part II. Grammatical aspect of Chinese discourse 5 Conceptual word order principles and Mandarin Chinese grammar Anna Morbiato 6 Grammatical constructions and Chinese discourse Zhuo Jing-Schmidt 7 Between factuality and counterfactuality: Chinese conditionals in conversations Yu-Fang Wang and Wayne Schams 8 Information structure in Chinese discourse Yu-Yin Hsu Part III. Linguistic elements in Chinese discourse 9 Personal pronouns in Chinese discourse Xuehua Xiang 10 Aspect in Chinese narrative Wendan Li 11 The use of modal verbs in political debates Maria Cheng 12 Zero anaphora and topic chain in Chinese discourse Ming-Ming Pu Part IV. Pragmatic aspect of Chinese discourse 13 Politeness and impoliteness in Chinese discourse Dániel Z. Kádár 14 Pragmatic markers in Chinse discourse Guangwu Feng 15 The Grammaticalization of Stance Markers in Chinese Foong Ha Yap and Winnie Chor 16 Language, Gesture, and Meaning Kawai Chui Part V. Cognitive aspect of Chinese discourse 17 The Psycholinguistics of Chinese Discourse Processing Chien-Jer Charles Lin 18 The neurocognitive processing of Chinese discourse Chiao-Yi Wu and Shen-Hsing Annabel Chen 19 Language impairment in Chinese discourse Yi-hsiu Lai and Yu-te Lin 20 Discourse, Gender and Psychologization in Contemporary China Jie Yang Part VI. Genres of Chinese discourse 21 Chinese Business Communication Jiayi Wang 22 Chinese workplace discourse: politeness strategies and power dynamics Vincent X. Wang 23 Legal discourse studies in the Chinese context Zhengrui Han and Yunfeng Ge 24 Authoritative classroom discourse: The abuse of power in a Chinese classroom Wang Bo and Ma Yuanyi Part VII. Chinese discourse on social media 25 The Discourse of Chinese Social Media: The Case of Weibo Eileen Le Han 26 Chinese Censorship of Online Discourse Juha A. Vuori and Lauri Paltemaa 27 Don't talk back to your father - Online anti-Taiwanese independence nationalist discourse Ane Bislev 28 Rescuing Authoritarian Rule: The Anti-Gongzhi Discourse in Chinese Cyberspace Rongbin Han and Linan Jia Part VIII. Identity, Ideology and control in Chinese discourse 29 Discursive Construction of National and Political Identities in China Qing Cao 30 Ideological patterns in Chinese state media narratives concerning issues of security and sovereignty Lutgard Lams 31 The Cultural Governance of China's Mass Media Events Florian Schneider 32 Identity construction in Chinese discourse Cheng-Tuan Li Part IX. Chinese discourse and language technology 33 Development of Computation Models for Chinese Discourse Analysis Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen 34 Chinese spoken dialogue system Chung-Hsien Wu and Ming-Hsiang Su 35 Corpus Stylistics and Chinese Literary Discourses: A Comparative Study of Four Novels by Shen Congwen and Chang Eileen Zhao-Ming Gao 36 Tracking Collective Sentiment in Chinese Finance-related Discourse Samuel W.K. Chan Part X. The diversity of Chinese discourse 37 Code-switching in Singapore Mandarin Cher Leng Lee 38 Studies in Cantonese discourse: Two examples John C. Wakefield 39 An Introduction to Taiwan Hakka: Focusing on its Sounds, Morph-Syntax and Social Background Huei-ling Lai 40 The Dynamics of Southern Min in Taiwan: From Southern Min dialects to Taigi" Hui-lu Khoo (Hui-ju Hsu) Part XI. The application of Chinese discourse analysis 41 Discourse analysis in Chinese interpreting and translation studies Binhua Wang 42 Discourse analysis for Chinese language teaching Julia Renner 43 Critical Cultural Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of Chinese Official Discourse on Civil Society Runya Qiaoan 44 A discourse analysis of Macau chefs' accounts of job crafting Ting Wu