Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners
Vincent X. Wang
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 207] 2011. xv, 199 pp.
Vincent X. Wang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vincent X. Wang plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics
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2009 Pragmatic shifts in two translations of Fusheng Liuji: A descriptive study of request behaviour Target 21:2, pp. 209–234 | Article
This study focuses on translation shifts in speech act realisation patterns in two English translations of the Chinese work Fusheng Liuji. It employs analytical tools from cross-cultural pragmatics to describe speech act behaviour in the original and its translations. Lin uses more translation… read more