Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan

Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan

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Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice - Yuling Pan

Yuling Pan [+-]
U.S. Census Bureau
Yuling Pan is Sociolinguist and Principal Researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau. Her numerous publications include Politeness in Chinese Face-to-face Interaction (Ablex, 2000), Professional Communication in International Settings (with Suzanne Scollon and Ron Scollon, Blackwell Publishing, 2002) and Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese (with Dániel Z. Kádár, Continuum, 2011).
Dániel Z Kádár [+-]
Dalian University of Foreign Studies, China and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Daniel Z. Kadar (D.Litt, FHEA, PhD) is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Pragmatics Research at Dalian University of Foreign Studies. He is also Research Professor of Pragmatics and Head of Research Centre at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been author and editor of more than 20 books, published by academic publishers of world-leading standing such as Equinox, Cambridge, Palgrave and Bloomsbury. He has also published a large number of studies in high-impact journals such as Journal of Politeness Research and Journal of Pragmatics. His most recent works include Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (Cambridge, 2017), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic Politeness (edited with Jonathan Culpeper and Michael Haugh, Palgrave, 2017), and Understanding Politeness (with Michael Haugh, Cambridge, 2013). He is Editor (with Xinren Chen) of Equinox’s East Asian Pragmatics journal.

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This edited volume has two closely related goals: first, to contribute to the field of discourse and interaction, and secondly, to fill a knowledge gap in Chinese discourse studies by providing a series of empirical research on Chinese language use in various social contexts.It should be noted that the present work fills an important knowledge gap in the field. Although many studies have been published, which describe certain aspects of Chinese discourse, no work to date has attempted to describe Chinese discourse and interaction in a wider sense. This is supposedly due to the fact that ‘discourse and interaction’ refers to a complex set of linguistic forms and practices – including both the micro and macro features of situated language use – and so there is not any single analytical methodology that could inquire into them in a comprehensive way. This problem manifests itself in the fact that, while many papers have been published on the various aspects of Chinese discourse,1 few books have been devoted to this topic. Furthermore, volumes addressing Chinese discourse deal with its fairly specialised aspects, such as politeness (Pan 2000) or institutional communication (Sun and Kádár 2008). In other words, no attempt has been made to study Chinese discourse in a comprehensive way. This trend is quite different from sociological inquiries into Chinese discourse (e.g. Dikötter 1992; Li 2008). This volume hopes to fill this gap in linguistic studies by providing a series of contributions, applying a wide array of approaches and methodologies

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Pan, Yuling; Kádár, Dániel Z. . Introduction. Chinese Discourse and Interaction - Theory and Practice. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-11 Jan 2013. ISBN 9781845536329. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=19900. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.19900. Jan 2013

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