Mary Hoi Yin Tang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary Hoi Yin Tang plays a role.

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Chan, Angela, Wei Zhang, Olga Zayts-Spence, Mary Hoi Yin Tang and Wai Keung Tam 2015 Directive-giving and grammatical forms: Mitigation devices in a medical laboratory setting Chinese Language and Discourse 6:2, pp. 133–161 | Article
This paper investigates the use of grammatical forms in directive sequences by drawing on daily interactions between colleagues in a medical laboratory in Hong Kong. From a conversation analytic perspective, we focus on how directives in Cantonese are commonly formulated and how the force of a… read more