Politeness Phenomena Across Chinese Genres

Author : Xinren Chen
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 178179586X

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Politeness Phenomena Across Chinese Genres by Xinren Chen Pdf

This volume looks at politeness phenomena in a culture and country that is becoming the most influential in the world. It is the first book to survey politeness variations across different genres in Chinese and fills a gap in both politeness research in general and in Chinese politeness research in particular.Unlike existing studies which treat Chinese politeness phenomena as non-varying this study provides systemic evidence for how linguistic polite behaviour varies across genres in China. These intracultural variations which are investigated in the volume include addressing, backchanneling, identity construction and rapport management which are subject to the influence of genre differences such as formality of occasion, media and channel of communication, presence or absence of interlocutor or third party and role-configurations. The volume offers those who read or write Chinese texts or engage in Chinese conversation an enriched knowledge of how politeness as the most important type of interpersonal meaning is communicated in different genres in that language.

Author : Xinren Chen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527588493

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Metapragmatics and the Chinese Language by Xinren Chen Pdf

This volume presents how Chinese people communicate with various meta-level expressions for different purposes across contexts. It demonstrates empirically how the use of these expressions contributes to the management of meaning generation, interpersonal relating and discourse organization. It will serve to shed light on the understanding of how Chinese people monitor their speech in the course of communication, and will function as an important reference for researchers and students who conduct cross-linguistic comparative or contrastive metapragmatic research concerning Chinese and other languages.

Author : Rong Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009281188

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Chinese Politeness by Rong Chen Pdf

Through a thorough treatment of Chinese politeness, this book argues that universalism is of paramount importance in politeness theorizing.

Author : Yuling Pan,Daniel Z. Kadar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441101198

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Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese by Yuling Pan,Daniel Z. Kadar Pdf

Pan and Kadar's exciting research compares historical and contemporary Chinese (im)polite communication norms and maps the similarities and differences between them. Considering the importance of China on the world stage, understanding Chinese politeness norms is pivotal, to both experts of communication studies and those who have interactions with the Chinese community.

Author : MINFEN LIN
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781631816765

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DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF ONLINE IDENTITIES BY CHINESE CELEBRITIES ON SINA WEIBO by MINFEN LIN Pdf

Weibo, a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, a popular microblogging service platform originated from China, has become one of the leading SNSs in Greater China Region. It features huge numbers of active users as well as verified high-profiled celebrity users and corporate users. Incorporating the insights from socio-psychology field to build an integrated framework of analysis for describing and explaining the processes and products of online identity construction by Chinese celebrities, the book represents an attempt to investigates how Chinese celebrities discursively construct their personal and social identities on Sina Weibo. The book can serve as a reference to the research on identity construction with its significant insights regarding the multi-faceted nature and relational dynamics of identity construction on social media and the uncovering of linguistic acts and features constituting relational identity. In addition, the insights from the study could be a reference to provide practical implications for personal branding and personal rapport management in the new Web 2.0 era.

Author : Yuling Pan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004471284

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Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction by Yuling Pan Pdf

This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.

Author : Rong Chen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110787856

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Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics by Rong Chen Pdf

With the “discursive turn” has come a distrust – a complete rejection by some – of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts. The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to (im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis, identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody, and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication, sociology, and psychology.

Author : Xinren Chen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350169340

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Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication by Xinren Chen Pdf

There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is often (de)constructed and negotiated in communication in order to impact the outcome of the interaction. Filling an important gap in current research, this book offers the first systematic, pragmatic theory to account for the generative mechanisms of identity in communication. Using data drawn from real-life communicative contexts in China, Xinren Chen examines why identity strategies are adopted, how and why identities are constructed and what factors determine their appropriateness and effectiveness. In answering these questions, this book argues that identity is an essential communicative resource, present across various domains and able to be exploited to facilitate the realization of communicative needs. Demonstrating that communication in Chinese involves the dynamic choice and shift of identity by discursive means, Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication suggests that identity is intersubjective in communication in all languages and that it can be accepted, challenged, or even deconstructed.

Author : Wei Feng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811044694

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Discursive Constructions of Corporate Identities by Chinese Banks on Sina Weibo by Wei Feng Pdf

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions. Toward this end, it pursues an integrated sociolinguistics approach combining e.g. thematic analysis, interactional analysis and in-depth interviews. Readers will also find extensive information on the brand-new dialogic framework of corporate identity formation. The book offers an insightful and revealing guide for both practitioners/trainers and teachers in corporate communication who are faced with the challenges of managing public relations and corporate images in the age of social media. It can also serve as a valuable case study for those readers who are fascinated by the Chinese economy and discourse analysis of the Chinese language.

Author : Cynthia Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000225365

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Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education in East Asia by Cynthia Lee Pdf

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education. The chapters use different contemporary research methods and theoretical frameworks such as conversation analysis, language-learners-as-ethnographers, discourse and interactional approaches and data in contexts (either in the region or overseas). The content explores and discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education for learners who use English as a lingua franca for academic and intercultural communication purposes with native and non-native speakers of English, focusing on pragmatic actions, social behaviours, perceptions and awareness levels in three regions in East Asia – China, Japan and South Korea. It is an important contribution to the area of second language pragmatics in language education for East Asian learners. It recommends research-informed pedagogies for the learning and teaching of interlanguage or intercultural pragmatics in regions and places where similar cultural beliefs or practices are found. This is an essential read for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers, readers who are interested in second language pragmatics research and those interested in second language acquisition and English language education in the East Asian context.

Author : Chaoqun Xie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031370649

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Advancing (Im)politeness Studies by Chaoqun Xie Pdf

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With contributions by established and emerging scholars in the field, this collection explores and expounds, with the combination of solid theoretical foundation and up-close empirical demonstration, how (im)politeness not only gives but also gives off communicative and interpersonal meaning in diverse cultural contexts. Included are chapters on how (im)politeness contributes to the construction of social reality online and in social media and how (im)politeness prompts and is prompted by emotional sensitivities. This book is of interest and value to students and researchers in the field and those keen to know how effective human existence and essence are possible through the lens of (im)politeness.

Author : Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015077608837

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Terms of (im)politeness by Dániel Z. Kádár Pdf

Author : Maurizio Gotti,Paul Gillaerts
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039116819

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Genre Variation in Business Letters by Maurizio Gotti,Paul Gillaerts Pdf

The focus of this volume is on the business letter genre, a seminal and widely used genre in business communication. Since the introduction of the Internet, interest in this genre has increased once again, because of the digital format of the letter. E-mail has partially taken over the multiple functions of the traditional business letter and bypassed, again partially, the fax. However, the letter has also survived in its written form. Since the 1990s, genre theory has been receiving a lot of attention, both in academic and pedagogical circles. Discourse analysts have increasingly discovered the importance of the genre concept for the understanding of discourse. Not only do we get a better understanding of the linguistic characteristics (register, lexico-grammatical features) of texts, but we also become aware of their macrostructures which appear to be organised according to genre expectations and conventions rooted in the socio-cultural context. This evolution is also reflected in the different research approaches to the business letter, as shown by the various chapters of this volume.

Author : Hua Peng
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Academic language
ISBN : 3034305672

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Chinese PhD Thesis Acknowledgements by Hua Peng Pdf

While there is a comparatively rich research literature on English acknowledgement texts, research into Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgement texts, especially the social roles of the texts, has received little attention. To fill this gap, this book examines a corpus of Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgement texts in order to explore both the typical structure of the texts and their social function within the particular university setting as well as within a broader social context. The author uses stratified purposive sampling and semi-structured text-based interviews with PhD graduates, their supervisors and other acknowledgee representatives to gather data. Furthermore, PhD guidebooks, supervisors' CVs and graduates' publications have been collected. Three theoretical notions - communities of practice, audience and politeness - are drawn into account for the findings of the study. Besides uncovering several undocumented move patterns, the book offers insightful understanding of acknowledgement texts both as a part-genre of research writing as well as a window of the textual and social world of PhD graduates' chorus of gratitude.

Author : Chaoqun Xie,Ying Tong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030992170

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Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts by Chaoqun Xie,Ying Tong Pdf

This book explores the extent to which self-praise is acceptable in both offline and online contexts, across different genres, platforms, and cultural backgrounds. The data analyzed encompass both naturally occurring (daily conversation as well as institutional talk) and elicited (experiments and interviews) types, and are explored at both quantitative and qualitative levels to offer a relatively systematic and comprehensive inquiry into self-praise as social (inter)action. Contributors to this book not only draw on traditional politeness theories but are also informed by social psychology, interactional sociolinguistics, CMC, and (multimodal) discourse analysis. They are inspired by pragmatics but also go beyond to ground their studies within locally situated cultural contexts, most of which are under-presented in the current academic world. Their efforts substantiate the fact that self-praise is most worthy of intensive analytic attention. This book appeals to students and researchers in the field and contributes to the way communication is facilitated through different ways of deploying linguistic and interactional resources.