Chihsia Tang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chihsia Tang plays a role.
2023 The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse: The interplay of speaker gender and hearer gender Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigated how the gender of the contestants in TV talent competitions affects male and female judges’ management of their advice, exemplified by evaluative talks in two Taiwan-based talent contests. In addition to the pragmatic configuration of the advising acts, the internal and… read more
2021 Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement: Gender variation Pragmatics and Society 12:4, pp. 515–536 | Article
In the existing literature, no attempt has been made to inspect how men and women rhetorically manage their gratitude communications in the academic written discourse. To bridge this knowledge gap, the present article examined how students of different gender construct their thanking acts in the… read more
2020 The interplay of cultural expectation, gender role, and communicative behavior: Evidence from compliment-responding behavior Pragmatics and Society 11:4, pp. 545–569 | Article
A number of pragmatic studies have reported on gender variations in compliment-responding linguistic behavior. However, how people of different gender roles react to compliments was rarely compared. The earlier literature reported that men and women’s values and priorities are incompatible,… read more
2016 Managing criticisms in US-based and Taiwan-based reality talent contests: A cross-linguistic comparison Pragmatics 26:1, pp. 111–136 | Article
This research studied how English and Chinese speakers encode their criticisms in the media discourse, aiming to explore the correlation between the speakers’ applications of pragmalinguistic strategies and their sociocultural orientations. Criticisms analyzed in the present study were collected… read more
2015 The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior: Some evidence from criticisms in Taiwanese media discourse Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 477–499 | Article
People’s power and status can be manifested through the language they use. It was generally perceived that men’s speeches are more assertive and direct than women’s because of men’s higher social status in the societies. Yet, studies have argued that there should be no difference in terms of men… read more
2013 Planning units in speech production: Evidence from anticipatory retracing in spoken Mandarin Chinese narratives Chinese Language and Discourse 4:2, pp. 253–275 | Article
Previous studies based on observations of different languages have shown that phrase is the integral unit of speech formulation and articulation. Evidence from Mandarin Chinese, however, is scant. This research, therefore, sets out to explore whether the speech processing unit of Chinese spoken… read more