Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan
2. Epistemic stance in Mandarin conversation: The positions and functions of wo juede (I feel/think)
Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan
Tomoko Endo [+]
Kyoto University
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Tomoko Endo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, affiliated with the Department of Linguistics in Kyoto University. Her publications include book chapters in Studies of Chinese Linguistics: Functional Approaches (edited by Janet Xing, 2009)and Construction and Meaning (in Japanese, edited byHarumi Sawada,forthcoming).
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Endo’s chapter examines the sentential positions and functions of a Chinese expression wo juede 我覺得 (‘I think’) and its relation to the epistemic stance that speakers take in conversation. By analysing two major interactional features of Chinese communication, namely, the ways in which the Chinese express personal views and in which they take epistemic stances in interaction, Endo demonstrates how Chinese speakers modulate social relation with their interlocutors by alternating the positions of wo juede 我覺得 (‘I think’) in conversation.