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This article is a conversation-analytic investigation of an interactional practice in Mandarin – the multiple saying duì duì duì (right right right). Contributing to extant researches on multiple sayings and responsive tokens, it shows that, this multiple saying is not simply an upgrade on the single duì. When using it as a third-position response,...
Adopting Conversation Analysis as the research method, the present study explores the interactional work performed by bú shì…ma? (Isn't it the case that…) interrogatives in Mandarin Chinese, which are a particular type of negative polarity interrogatives that are asked from a position where the speaker has epistemic access to the certainty of the e...
This study inquires into Chinese working couples’ (both the husband and the wife have a paid job) marital power relations manifested in their use of face-threatening utterances in family situations. A quantitative approach is adopted and the data come from 4 commonly-accepted “realistic” Chinese TV dramas committed to contemporary Chinese working c...
Book reviews 383 This book is significant in its broadening of the scope of political discourse genres to include online communication, as well as in its exploration of the promising new domain of multimodality. Also important is the book's focus on so-called hybrid genres, as exemplified in Chapters 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12. The dynamic nature of m...
