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postgraduate thesis: Gratitude expressions with mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese : their syntax, lexical semantics and sentence semantics
Title | Gratitude expressions with mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese : their syntax, lexical semantics and sentence semantics |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Lee, M. [李美珊]. (2013). Gratitude expressions with mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese : their syntax, lexical semantics and sentence semantics. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5091048 |
Abstract | In Cantonese, there are mainly two types of gratitude expressions, mh-goi and do-jeh, that are frequently used in everyday conversation. Although the importance of these gratitude expressions in social interaction is obvious, clear definitions of these words and in-depth explanations on how to use them correctly and idiomatically are lacking in Cantonese textbooks. It is also a hard task for native Cantonese speakers to gener-alize simple rules of use of mh-goi and do-jeh. Moreover, there seems to be no lin-guistic studies on the grammatical and semantic properties of these expressions so far. The present thesis investigates the usages of mh-goi and do-jeh in various utter-ance situations, and subsequently analyzes their similarities and differences on the syntactic, lexical semantic and sentence semantic levels, using the approach of Inte-grational Linguistics (IL). The phenomena related to the use of mh-goi and do-jeh are first discussed informally as a theoretical background, followed by formal syntactic and semantic analyses. The purpose of this thesis is, therefore, two-fold: first, to achieve a fairly comprehensive linguistic analysis of mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese, and second, to give both Cantonese teachers and learners of Cantonese a clearer idea of the rules of use of mh-goi and do-jeh based on their syntactic and semantic fea-tures. |
Degree | Master of Arts |
Subject | Cantonese dialects - Semantics Cantonese dialects - Syntax |
Dept/Program | Linguistics |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192952 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5091048 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lee, Mei-shan | - |
dc.contributor.author | 李美珊 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-12-14T06:23:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-12-14T06:23:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lee, M. [李美珊]. (2013). Gratitude expressions with mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese : their syntax, lexical semantics and sentence semantics. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5091048 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192952 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In Cantonese, there are mainly two types of gratitude expressions, mh-goi and do-jeh, that are frequently used in everyday conversation. Although the importance of these gratitude expressions in social interaction is obvious, clear definitions of these words and in-depth explanations on how to use them correctly and idiomatically are lacking in Cantonese textbooks. It is also a hard task for native Cantonese speakers to gener-alize simple rules of use of mh-goi and do-jeh. Moreover, there seems to be no lin-guistic studies on the grammatical and semantic properties of these expressions so far. The present thesis investigates the usages of mh-goi and do-jeh in various utter-ance situations, and subsequently analyzes their similarities and differences on the syntactic, lexical semantic and sentence semantic levels, using the approach of Inte-grational Linguistics (IL). The phenomena related to the use of mh-goi and do-jeh are first discussed informally as a theoretical background, followed by formal syntactic and semantic analyses. The purpose of this thesis is, therefore, two-fold: first, to achieve a fairly comprehensive linguistic analysis of mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese, and second, to give both Cantonese teachers and learners of Cantonese a clearer idea of the rules of use of mh-goi and do-jeh based on their syntactic and semantic fea-tures. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Cantonese dialects - Semantics | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Cantonese dialects - Syntax | - |
dc.title | Gratitude expressions with mh-goi and do-jeh in Cantonese : their syntax, lexical semantics and sentence semantics | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5091048 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Arts | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Linguistics | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_b5091048 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991035830249703414 | - |