TY - JOUR
T1 - Variation of subject pronominal expression in Mandarin Chinese
AU - Li, Xiaoshi
AU - Chen, Xiaoqing
AU - Chen, Wen Hsin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This study investigated the variation of subject pronominal expression in Mandarin Chinese. The data were collected from 20 speakers in three discourse contexts including informal conversations, elicited narratives, and teacher classroom speech. A multivariate analysis of 8,507 tokens revealed that the linguistic constraints that affect Chinese subject pronoun use include switch in subject referents, person/number/animacy of the subject, specificity of subject referents, and sentence type. In regards to social factors, age, gender and occupation were significant. Older speakers/teachers/females are more likely to realize subject pronouns than younger speakers/students/males.
AB - This study investigated the variation of subject pronominal expression in Mandarin Chinese. The data were collected from 20 speakers in three discourse contexts including informal conversations, elicited narratives, and teacher classroom speech. A multivariate analysis of 8,507 tokens revealed that the linguistic constraints that affect Chinese subject pronoun use include switch in subject referents, person/number/animacy of the subject, specificity of subject referents, and sentence type. In regards to social factors, age, gender and occupation were significant. Older speakers/teachers/females are more likely to realize subject pronouns than younger speakers/students/males.
KW - Chinese
KW - Sociolinguistics
KW - Subject pronominal expression
KW - Variation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878259226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1558/sols.v6i1.91
DO - 10.1558/sols.v6i1.91
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:84878259226
SN - 1750-8649
VL - 6
SP - 91
EP - 119
JO - Sociolinguistic Studies
JF - Sociolinguistic Studies
IS - 1
ER -