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| Title: | “I am sure but I hedge” : fear expression kongpa as a rhetorical interactive strategy in Mandarin conversation | Authors: | Yang, Y Yap, FH Wong, TS |
Issue Date: | Sep-2012 | Source: | Yang, Y., Yap, F.H. & Wong, T.S. (2012, September 3-5). “I am sure but I hedge” : fear expression kongpa as a rhetorical interactive strategy in Mandarin conversation [Conference presentation]. Workshop on Epistemicity, Evidentiality and Attitude in Asian Languages: Typological, Diachronic and Discourse Perspectives, September 3-5, 2012, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | Abstract: | This study investigates how modal adverb kongpa is used in Mandarin conversation by linking epistemic uncertainty and potential negative impact of the related utterances together with the theory of hedging. | Keywords: | Modal adverb Mandarin |
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