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Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman ...
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The Pragmatic-Discursive Structure of Chinese Compliments in Naturally Occurring Conversation ...
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Studies across different languages over the past three decades have claimed that compliments are formulaic in nature, realized by only a few syntactic and semantic formulae. Much of the research employs elicitation or ethnographic field notes data, which biases the analysis to single utterance, explicit and formulaic compliments. However, my observations of Chinese compliments in naturally occurring conversation paint a different, much more sophisticated, picture. The current study investigates the realization of spontaneous Chinese complimenting behavior in the speech communities of Shanghai and other cities in China. Over 200 speakers from different walks of life were audio-recorded in a vast array of natural settings. Three hundred compliment-response sequences were selected for analysis. Adopting a combination of the pragmatic speech act analytic approach and the discursive pragmatic analytic approach, the current study examines the pragmatic-discursive structure of Chinese complimenting in conversation ...
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Applied linguistics; Chinese language; Compliments; Conversation analysis; Discourse analysis; FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Speech acts Linguistics
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URL: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8RJ621X https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8rj621x
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Zhōng Jiè Yǔ Yǔ Yán Xué Duō Wéi Yán Jiū [Multidimensional Studies in Interlanguage Linguistics] ...
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Unified Discourse Analysis: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds, and Video Games ...
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