Increments in Mandarin Chinese

Emergent Units in Action

Ni-Eng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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Routledge
19 June 2024

Language: reference & general; Grammar, syntax; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Literature: history & criticism

Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments.

Increments have been identified as a key nexus that evinces how human interactional practices are fundamental to the structuration of grammar. Lim examines the common interactional work these increments do in their sequential context and what implications these findings have for our understanding of language and grammar. Based on the examination of actual interactional practices by Chinese speakers, findings show that all types of grammatically fitted and unfitted increments can be produced in a situated context. The research in this book also demonstrates how similar action can be pursued using different types of increments and that more than one “task” or action may be concurrently and subtly accomplished with the use of a single increment. The results indicate how the regular everyday practices of Chinese increment, formulated in moment-to-moment interaction, instantiate and endorse multiple principles expounded in emergent grammar, thereby adding to our wider understanding of language and grammar.

This book will primarily interest researchers, graduate students, and educators working within the field of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis, in particular those in Chinese-speaking regions. As research on non-English data is still very limited in these areas, the book will also be useful for researchers with broad interests in the Chinese language.

By: Ni-Eng Lim (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032540580
ISBN 10: 1032540583
Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 19 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ni-Eng Lim is an assistant professor in Chinese and Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for his doctoral study in applied linguistics. Researching primarily in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, his interests fall broadly under Chinese interactional linguistics and various institutional talk.