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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ambiguities of the evaluative adverb jiu./
Author:	Tian, Yuan.
Description:	237 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3668.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3110038

Ambiguities of the evaluative adverb jiu.
Tian, Yuan.

Ambiguities of the evaluative adverb jiu. - 237 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3668.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i, 2003.

This dissertation is based on research that investigates uses of the evaluative adverb <italic>jiu</italic> in evaluating time and quantity. Uses of <italic>jiu</italic> in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin are compared and contrasted. In Beijing Mandarin, <italic>jiu</italic> indicates “early”, “a short time”, or “small quantity” in some cases, and “late”, “a long time”, or “large quantity” in others. In Taiwan Mandarin <italic>jiu</italic> primarily indicates “early”, “a short time”, and “small quantity”. These differences cause ambiguities and comprehension problems in communication and language learning.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Ambiguities of the evaluative adverb jiu.
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500 $a Chairperson: Tao-chung Yao.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i, 2003.
520 $a This dissertation is based on research that investigates uses of the evaluative adverb <italic>jiu</italic> in evaluating time and quantity. Uses of <italic>jiu</italic> in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin are compared and contrasted. In Beijing Mandarin, <italic>jiu</italic> indicates “early”, “a short time”, or “small quantity” in some cases, and “late”, “a long time”, or “large quantity” in others. In Taiwan Mandarin <italic>jiu</italic> primarily indicates “early”, “a short time”, and “small quantity”. These differences cause ambiguities and comprehension problems in communication and language learning.
520 $a My research aims at finding disambiguating factors in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin via three tasks. First, reasons for ambiguities are investigated by comparing different meanings of <italic>jiu</italic> in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin. Second, the significance of stress when disambiguating meanings in spoken Mandarin is investigated via a listening test. Third effective, disambiguating factors are explored through analysis of a language corpus and listing adverbs that have semantic and pragmatic meanings similar to <italic> jiu</italic>.
520 $a A language corpus of around one and a half million vocabulary items was used to find actual textual examples of the evaluative adverb <italic>jiu </italic> in Beijing Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin. This corpus includes two groups of novels: those written by native Taiwanese writers called Bensheng Ren (native resident) who were born and educated in Taiwan, and those written by native Beijing Mandarin speakers. Two software programs PCTMD—Personal Computer Taiwanese-Mandarin Database (Cheng and Gammon, 1998) and Sentence Searcher (TM) (Gammon, 1998) were used to search the corpus for all sentences containing <italic>jiu</italic>. These sentences were sorted into various categories according to their meanings and functions in order to investigate the similarities and differences of <italic>jiu</italic> in Beijing Mandarin and in Taiwan Mandarin. This process identified reasons for the ambiguities.
520 $a A listening test was developed to test the significance of stress when distinguishing different meanings of <italic>jiu</italic> in oral communication. Twenty native Beijing Mandarin speakers and twenty native Taiwan Mandarin speakers participated in the test. The results show that in Beijing Mandarin stress plays an important role in distinguishing meaning in ambiguous situations. Stress does not, however, work effectively in Taiwan Mandarin.
520 $a In written communication in the selected texts, a clear context is effective in disambiguation. Besides context, <italic>jiu</italic>'s versatile meanings and functions in Beijing Mandarin are compared to similar adverbs preferred in Taiwan Mandarin such as <italic>zhi, cai</italic> and <italic>yijing</italic> in the speaker's evaluation of time and quantity.
520 $a As above, using stress in oral communication and giving clear context in written communication are effective disambiguating strategies. For Chinese foreign language pedagogy we recommend that <italic>jiu</italic> be presented in various patterns or constructions instead of as an individual function word.
590 $a School code: 0085.
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