Coherence in Chinese Conversation

  • Guo Xie Guilin Tourism University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v10i3.2460
Keywords: Illocutionary acts, Conversational analysis, Adjacency pairs

Abstract

Conversational analysis, as a branch of spoken discourse analysis, is to investigate the way that conversation works in practice. Relevant studies on the adjacency pairs in conversational analysis aim to explore the discourse coherence. To probe into the coherence in Chinese conversation in a further way, this paper investigates how a chain of adjacency pairs functions in Chinese conversation.

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Published
2021-11-07
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 3 (2021)

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