Right dislocation in cantonese: An emotion-intensifying device

Sophia Yat Mei Lee; Christy Choi Ting Lai

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_35

Right dislocation in cantonese: An emotion-intensifying device

Sophia Yat Mei Lee, Christy Choi Ting Lai

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Abstract

This paper explores the emotive function of Cantonese right dislocation based on language samples in a large spoken Cantonese database. Right dislocation is found to be highly associated with emotion expressions. In particular, explicit emotion words always appear in the first part of right dislocation. We argue that right dislocation is used as a focus marking device for highlighting emotion information and intensifying emotions. Therefore, right dislocation can serve as one of the linguistic cues for identifying implicit emotions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Qi Su, Jiun-Shiung Wu, Jia-Fei Hong
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	423-430
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783030040147
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_35
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Event	19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018 - Minxiong, Taiwan Duration: 26 May 2018 → 28 May 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11173 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018
Country/Territory	Taiwan
City	Minxiong
Period	26/05/18 → 28/05/18

Keywords

Cantonese
Emotion expression
Right dislocation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_35

http://hdl.handle.net/10397/94857

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Lee, S. Y. M., & Lai, C. C. T. (2019). Right dislocation in cantonese: An emotion-intensifying device. In Q. Su, J.-S. Wu, & J.-F. Hong (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 423-430). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11173 LNAI). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_35

Lee, Sophia Yat Mei ; Lai, Christy Choi Ting. / Right dislocation in cantonese : An emotion-intensifying device. Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Qi Su ; Jiun-Shiung Wu ; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer-Verlag, 2019. pp. 423-430 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Right dislocation in cantonese: An emotion-intensifying device. / Lee, Sophia Yat Mei; Lai, Christy Choi Ting.
Chinese Lexical Semantics - 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Qi Su; Jiun-Shiung Wu; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer-Verlag, 2019. p. 423-430 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11173 LNAI).

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