Dongmei Cheng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dongmei Cheng is involved.
Articles
2026 Investigating self-perceptions of speech act performance via retrospective verbal reports Applied Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Adopting retrospective verbal reports (RVRs) as the data collection instrument, this study investigates native English-speaking (NES) and English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) speakers’ perceptions of their performances of major speech acts (i.e., requests, apologies, and refusals). Each of the 12… read more
2017 “Communication is a two-way street”: Instructors’ perceptions of student apologies Pragmatics 27:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
Speech act studies are increasingly likely to use retrospective verbal protocols to record the thoughts of participants who produced targeted speech acts (e.g., Cohen & Olshtain, 1993). However, although communication is always a two-way street, little is known about the recipients’ perceptions… read more