Abstract
The study of pragmatic markers has for a long time attracted scholars within the field of pragmatics, in particular in the area of experimental pragmatics. This chapter examines the Mandarin particle ne in Mandarin Chinese using a relevance-theoretic framework. It argues that ne encodes a procedure that instructs the addressee to search for mutually manifest assumptions that support either the propositional content of the utterance, thereby reminding her of something that she should already know, or a topic shift in the form of a declarative or a question. Basing author's discussion on primarily empirical data from the CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese speech corpus, the chapter demonstrates that ne is a procedural marker of mutual manifestness that constrains the derivation of higher-level explicatures and implicatures. Keywords: Mandarin Chinese; mutual manifestness; ne ; pragmatic markers; procedural marker
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