Intercultural conversation

Summary: This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study investigates the ways in which culturally divergent conversationalists manage their organizational and interpersonal aspects of the unfolding conversations. The study focuses on five features of conversational interaction -- disagreements, compliments and compliment responses, simultaneous talk, discourse.

Record details

ISBN: 1423766520 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781423766520 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027295735
ISBN: 9789027295736
ISBN: 1588114651 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (viii, 274 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Intercultural Conversation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Transcription notation; 1 Communication across cultures; 2 Literature review and descriptive framework; 3 Research methodology and data collection; 4 Preference organization; 5 Compliments and compliment responses; 6 Simultaneous talk; 7 Discourse topic management; 8 Discourse information structure; 9 Conclusion; References; Authors index; Subject index; The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.