1st Edition
Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca Context, Practice, and Perception
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Context and (im)politeness
Chapter 2 Understanding Chinese (im)politeness in context
Chapter 3 Pragmatics of English in multilingual contexts
Chapter 4 Practice in Mandarin Chinese
Chapter 5 Practice in English as a multilingua franca
Chapter 6 Perceptions of extended concurrent speech for strong disagreement
Chapter 7 Perceptions of disagreement and overlapping
Chapter 8 Context, practice and perception
Appendices
Glossary
Index
Biography
Weihua Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Her current research interests include discourse analysis, Chinese pragmatics, language pedagogy, and English as a Multilingua Franca.
