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TY - JOUR
T1 - Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin
AU - Tantucci, Vittorio
AU - Wang, Aiqing
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Discourse Studies, 22 (2), 2020, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Discourse Studies page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/dis on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They contribute both locally (i.e. at the morphosyntactic level) and peripherally (i.e. at the illocutionary level) to the encoding of contextually and temporally situated speech acts or pragmemes. Mixed methods of hierarchical clustering and multiple correspondence analysis indicate that the recent history of evaluative speech acts in written Chinese is characterised by a shift from prevalently rapport-maintaining orientation to utterances more overtly marked for (im-)politeness. Evaluative language in written Mandarin became less mitigated at the structural level and increasingly oriented towards rapport enhancement and rapport challenge. This shift significantly intersects with a progressive replacement of clause-final particles during the 20th century, especially after the so-called ‘May the 4th Movement’.
AB - This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They contribute both locally (i.e. at the morphosyntactic level) and peripherally (i.e. at the illocutionary level) to the encoding of contextually and temporally situated speech acts or pragmemes. Mixed methods of hierarchical clustering and multiple correspondence analysis indicate that the recent history of evaluative speech acts in written Chinese is characterised by a shift from prevalently rapport-maintaining orientation to utterances more overtly marked for (im-)politeness. Evaluative language in written Mandarin became less mitigated at the structural level and increasingly oriented towards rapport enhancement and rapport challenge. This shift significantly intersects with a progressive replacement of clause-final particles during the 20th century, especially after the so-called ‘May the 4th Movement’.
KW - corpus analysis
KW - facework
KW - Pragmatics
KW - intersubjectivity
KW - Chinese
KW - language change
KW - politeness
KW - speech acts
U2 - 10.1177/1461445619893777
DO - 10.1177/1461445619893777
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 146
EP - 173
JO - Discourse Studies
JF - Discourse Studies
SN - 1461-4456
IS - 2
ER -