From indicating similarity to establishing online alignment: interactional functions of ye “also” in Mandarin Chinese

Abstract Ye “also/too/as well” is one of the most frequently used adverbs in Mandarin Chinese. Although the lexical meaning and syntactic properties of ye have been widely discussed, there are few analyses of ye expressions in interactional discourse, let alone analyses examining its interactional f...

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Main Authors: Lu Xue, Shuangyun Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2025-02-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04480-0
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