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Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Is Mandarin Chinese a Truth-Based Language? Rejecting Responses to Negative Assertions and Questions |
Data: | 2016 |
Resum: | This paper addresses the central question of whether Mandarin Chinese (MC) is a canonical truth-based language, a language that is expected to express the speaker's disagreement to a negative proposition by means of a negative particle followed by a positive sentence. Eight native speakers of MC participated in an oral Discourse Completion Task that elicited rejecting responses to negative assertions/questions and broad focus statements (control condition). Results show that MC speakers convey reject by relying on a combination of lexico-syntactic strategies (e. g. , negative particles such as bù, méi(yǒu), and positive sentences) together with prosodic (e. g. , mean pitch) and gestural strategies (mainly, the use of head nods). Importantly, the use of a negative particle, which was the expected outcome in truth-based languages, only appeared in 52% of the rejecting answers. This system puts into question the macroparametric division between truth-based and polarity-based languages and calls for a more general view of the instantiation of a speech act that integrates lexical and syntactic strategies with prosodic and gestural strategies. |
Ajuts: | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FFI2014-52015-P Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FFI2015-66533-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014-SGR-1013 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014-SGR-925 |
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Llengua: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Matèria: | Truth-based language ; REJECT ; Disagreement ; Negative propositions ; Mandarin Chinese |
Publicat a: | Frontiers in psychology, Vol. 7 (december 2016) , ISSN 1664-1078 |
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