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This paper is a case study that explores how communicative feedback for expressing agreement is used by Swedish and Chinese speakers in first encounters. Eight video-recorded conversations, four in Swedish and four in Chinese, between eight university students were analyzed. The findings show that both Swedish and Chinese speakers express agreement...
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... Chinese and the Swedish unimodal gestural feedback expressions for agreement will be analyzed in this section. An overview of the data is presented in Table 6. As can be seen from Table 6, both Swedish and Chinese speakers use unimodal gestural expressions relatively seldom, compared to how they use unimodal vocal-verbal expressions (presented in the previous section). ...Context 2
... overview of the data is presented in Table 6. As can be seen from Table 6, both Swedish and Chinese speakers use unimodal gestural expressions relatively seldom, compared to how they use unimodal vocal-verbal expressions (presented in the previous section). Nod(s) are the most common unimodal feedback expression to communicate agreement in both Swedish and Chinese samples. ...Similar publications
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