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In Chap. 3, we study the constructions from bi-syllable to quad-syllable with (at least) one opposite pairings. In this chapter, we extend the study to a larger scale, that is, to see how the opposite pairings are used in it.
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The term “discourse function” in this thesis is following the same term used in Jones (2002) and their later works. It is not the same reading as it has in discourse analysis.
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In the following parts of our writing, the taggers of X and Y were replaced by A and –A, and the term ‘antonymy’ Jones (2002) used was changed to ‘opposite’, in order to keep consistent with our experiment design.
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This saying is acceptable only if it’s a metaphor of human.
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Ding, J. (2018). Opposites in Discourse. In: A Lexical Semantic Study of Chinese Opposites. Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6184-4_4
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