Request Strategies
A comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean
| Curtin University of Technology, Australia
| Curtin University of Technology, Australia
This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each other in terms of exhaustiveness and authenticity.
This study explores the similarities and differences of the request patterns that emerged in the Chinese and Korean data, and the intricate relation between request strategies and social factors (such as power and distance). The findings raise questions about the influence of methodology on data, and the applicability of so called universals to East Asian languages. They also offer new insights into generally held ideas of directness and requesting behaviours in Chinese and Korean, and the problems of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communication. This research is suggestive for the disciplines of cross-cultural pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, contrastive linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis.
This study explores the similarities and differences of the request patterns that emerged in the Chinese and Korean data, and the intricate relation between request strategies and social factors (such as power and distance). The findings raise questions about the influence of methodology on data, and the applicability of so called universals to East Asian languages. They also offer new insights into generally held ideas of directness and requesting behaviours in Chinese and Korean, and the problems of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communication. This research is suggestive for the disciplines of cross-cultural pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, contrastive linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 177] 2008. xv, 320 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. xi–xii
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Abbreviations, conventions and notations | pp. xiii–xv
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1. Introduction | pp. 1–6
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2. Previous studies | pp. 7–32
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3. Methodology | pp. 33–56
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4. Individual situation comparisons | pp. 57–116
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5. Comparisons of social variables | pp. 117–178
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6. General discussion | pp. 180–207
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7. Sequential analysis of turn-taking | pp. 209–292
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8. Conclusions | pp. 293–297
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Appendix: Request scenarios | pp. 299–306
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Glossary of technical terms | pp. 313–316
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Name index | p. 317
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Sunject index | pp. 319–320
“The major part of the book consists of a clear, systematic and very well organized description of a natural speech database. The exhaustive comparison, which addresses both linguistic and social aspects of the request situations, may serve as an excellent starting point for those who wish to get acquainted with socio-linguistic difference between East Asian cultures.”
Ann Kronrod, Tel-Aviv University, on Linguist List, Vol. 19-2304
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General