The Emergence of Expressible Agency and Irony in Today’s China: A Semantic Explanation of the New Bèi-construction^*

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• Language Change 50%
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• Accidental 50%
• Natural Semantic Meta-language 50%
• Ethos 50%
• Pragmatic effects 50%

Social Sciences

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• Chinese 100%
• Consumers 50%
• Cultural Factor 50%
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