Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse

Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse
Author: Wendan Li
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004360883

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In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive account of how Chinese, as a morphologically challenged language, uses grammatical means to highlight (or foreground) major events of a narrative and to demote (or background) other supporting descriptions.