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Concluding Remarks

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This chapter concludes the book from three perspectives: the theoretical refinements, the main findings, and contributions from discourse analyses, and finally some further issues to be addressed. Overall, this book devotes itself to a formal discourse analysis of Chinese. It scrutinizes the particular correlation between Centering Theory and concrete Chinese discourse. This book makes a number of observations and proposals that have not been noted or properly explained by previous discourse studies on similar issues. This suggests that data analysis of Chinese discourse can help develop and refine the theoretical skeleton of centering. In turn, the calculation algorithm of Centering Theory can help to present a more comprehensive portrait of the Chinese language—its discourse, syntax, and semantics.

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  1. Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China

    Saina Wuyun

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Wuyun, S. (2020). Concluding Remarks. In: Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8666-8_6

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