Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan
5. English ‘then’ in colloquial Singapore Mandarin
Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan
Cher Leng Lee [+]
National University of Singapore
Cher Leng Lee is Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the National University of Singapore. Her research areas are: politeness, compliments, Chinese pronouns, Singapore Mandarin and dialects, and Singapore Chinese education. Her publications include: ‘Compliments and Compliment Responses of Singapore Chinese University Students’, Global Chinese 1(1), 169–202; ‘The Deixis of First Person Pronouns in the Analects’, Contemporary Linguistics 16(2), 142–156; ‘Politeness in Singapore’, in Politeness in East Asia (Cambridge University Press 2012); ‘English THEN in Colloquial Singapore Mandarin’, in Chinese Discourse and Interaction (Equinox, 2013); and ‘Compliments and Responses during Chinese New Year Celebrations in Singapore’, Pragmatics, 19(4), 519–541.
Description
This contribution examines the ways in which loan words are used in Chinese interaction through a case study of the interactional application of the English loan-word then in Singaporean Chinese. Lee’s study provides insights into the intercultural aspects of Chinese conversation, and so it forms a ‘bridge’ between micro level and macro-level research, that is, the two parts of the present volume.