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Yuling Pan
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contributors vii
- 1 Introduction 1
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PART I
- 2 Epistemic stance in Mandarin conversation: The positions and functions of wo juede (I feel/think) 12
- 3 Self-repair in Mandarin and Cantonese: Delaying the next item due in casual conversation and news interviews 35
- 4 “Do I really have to?” The give-andtake of deontic meaning in Chinese 58
- 5 English ‘then’ in colloquial Singapore Mandarin 77
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PART II
- 6 Approaching Chinese power in situated discourse: From experience to modelling 95
- 7 ‘Face’ in Taiwanese business interactions: From emic concepts to emic practices 126
- 8 What are Chinese respondents responding to? A close examination of question-answer sequences in survey interviews 151
- 9 Discourse analysis of Chinese speakers’ indirect and contraryto- face-value responses to survey interview questions 175
- 10 Customer-employee interaction from a diachronic perspective 200
- 11 Chinese prenatal genetic counselling discourse in Hong Kong: Healthcare providers’ (non)directive stance, or who is making the decision? 228
- 12 The pragmatics of Q&A interactions: Public discourses in Hong Kong 248
- 13 On the positive formation of Chinese group identity 271
- 14 ‘Polysemous’ politeness: Speaker self-referring forms in Honglou Meng 292
- 15 Epilogue: What makes Chinese unique in discourse and interaction? 310
- Authors Index 321
- Subject Index 325
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contributors vii
- 1 Introduction 1
-
PART I
- 2 Epistemic stance in Mandarin conversation: The positions and functions of wo juede (I feel/think) 12
- 3 Self-repair in Mandarin and Cantonese: Delaying the next item due in casual conversation and news interviews 35
- 4 “Do I really have to?” The give-andtake of deontic meaning in Chinese 58
- 5 English ‘then’ in colloquial Singapore Mandarin 77
-
PART II
- 6 Approaching Chinese power in situated discourse: From experience to modelling 95
- 7 ‘Face’ in Taiwanese business interactions: From emic concepts to emic practices 126
- 8 What are Chinese respondents responding to? A close examination of question-answer sequences in survey interviews 151
- 9 Discourse analysis of Chinese speakers’ indirect and contraryto- face-value responses to survey interview questions 175
- 10 Customer-employee interaction from a diachronic perspective 200
- 11 Chinese prenatal genetic counselling discourse in Hong Kong: Healthcare providers’ (non)directive stance, or who is making the decision? 228
- 12 The pragmatics of Q&A interactions: Public discourses in Hong Kong 248
- 13 On the positive formation of Chinese group identity 271
- 14 ‘Polysemous’ politeness: Speaker self-referring forms in Honglou Meng 292
- 15 Epilogue: What makes Chinese unique in discourse and interaction? 310
- Authors Index 321
- Subject Index 325
