Ning Yu, The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998.

The primary objective of this book is to contribute to the contemporary theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, so as to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. Those who are interesting in functional linguistics may find this book interesting.

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Kylie Hsu, A Discourse Analysis of Temporal Markers in Written and Spoken Mandarin Chinese:The Interaction of Semantics, Syntax, and Pragmatics. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.

This monograph presents a study of Mandarin grammar through discourse analysis by investigating temporal markers. The temporal markers are analyzed in terms of semantic import, syntactic constraints, and pragmatic functions.