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Chinese Discourse and Interaction
Theory and Practice
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Edited by:
Yuling Pan
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
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A delight to read and a welcome challenge for any scholar of discourse in Chinese contexts, as well as for researchers in cross-cultural politeness and pragmatics, and students of Chinese communication, more broadly.
LinguistList
With empirical studies employing diverse methods, analytic frameworks and data sources, this edited volume successfully fills a knowledge gap in Chinese discourse studies. This volume is recommended for students and scholars working on Chinese discourse analysis, intercultural pragmatics and intercultural studies.
Language in Society
An illuminating read with a cohesive focus. Surveys an impressive array of approaches and analytic methods in the latest scholarship on Chinese discourse and interaction.
Language and Dialogue
The volume makes a worthwhile theoretical and methodological contribution to Chinese discourse research and offers us insights into how to achieve communication successfully and efficiently in some Chinese contexts.
Discourse Studies
LinguistList
With empirical studies employing diverse methods, analytic frameworks and data sources, this edited volume successfully fills a knowledge gap in Chinese discourse studies. This volume is recommended for students and scholars working on Chinese discourse analysis, intercultural pragmatics and intercultural studies.
Language in Society
An illuminating read with a cohesive focus. Surveys an impressive array of approaches and analytic methods in the latest scholarship on Chinese discourse and interaction.
Language and Dialogue
The volume makes a worthwhile theoretical and methodological contribution to Chinese discourse research and offers us insights into how to achieve communication successfully and efficiently in some Chinese contexts.
Discourse Studies
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1 Introduction
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2 Epistemic stance in Mandarin conversation: The positions and functions of wo juede (I feel/think)
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3 Self-repair in Mandarin and Cantonese: Delaying the next item due in casual conversation and news interviews
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4 “Do I really have to?” The give-andtake of deontic meaning in Chinese
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5 English ‘then’ in colloquial Singapore Mandarin
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6 Approaching Chinese power in situated discourse: From experience to modelling
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7 ‘Face’ in Taiwanese business interactions: From emic concepts to emic practices
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8 What are Chinese respondents responding to? A close examination of question-answer sequences in survey interviews
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9 Discourse analysis of Chinese speakers’ indirect and contraryto- face-value responses to survey interview questions
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10 Customer-employee interaction from a diachronic perspective
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11 Chinese prenatal genetic counselling discourse in Hong Kong: Healthcare providers’ (non)directive stance, or who is making the decision?
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12 The pragmatics of Q&A interactions: Public discourses in Hong Kong
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13 On the positive formation of Chinese group identity
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14 ‘Polysemous’ politeness: Speaker self-referring forms in Honglou Meng
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15 Epilogue: What makes Chinese unique in discourse and interaction?
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Authors Index
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Subject Index
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