988018453 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SCLD 14 Eb 15 9789027258939 06 10.1075/scld.14 13 2021029284 DG 002 02 01 SCLD 02 1879-5382 Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace</Subtitle> 01 scld.14 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/scld.14 1 A01 Xuehua Xiang Xiang, Xuehua Xuehua Xiang University of Illinois at Chicago 01 eng 229 xii 217 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.KRAD Kra-Dai languages 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.BIL Multilingualism 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SITIB Sino-Tibetan languages 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, <i>Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace</i> analyzes multimodal talk-in-interaction in the traditional marketplace as both an economic mechanism and a localized social space. Focusing on how buyers and sellers interact to complete transactions as marketplace shifts from sedimentations of road-side peddling to centralized built space and further to corporate e-commerce, Xiang takes into account the Janus nature of language as both incurring transaction costs and a powerful tool of information and control. By analyzing the socializing functions of language in the marketplace outside of and beyond economic dealings, the study additionally documents and depicts the roles of affect and morality in marketplace encounters. The study offers an overarching framework for future research on the mediating role of language and multimodal interaction in economic activities as well as on the interplay of information, knowledge, affect and morality in social encounters. 05 It is a good read for readers who are well-versed in interactional or discourse studies that have interest in understanding the complexities of institutionalised talk (in the marketplace). Gregory Ang, Nanyang Technological University, in Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1 (2024). 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/scld.14.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027210487.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027210487.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/scld.14.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/scld.14.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/scld.14.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/scld.14.hb.png 10 01 JB code scld.14.pre ix xii 4 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c1 1 8 8 Chapter 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. Language and social interaction in Southern Chinese marketplace</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c2 9 32 24 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. The research context, methodology and theoretical preliminaries</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c3 33 58 26 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Initiating transactions</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Interactional asymmetry in competitive cooperation</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c4 59 78 20 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. The many shades and shapes of transaction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Transactions as an oral genre</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c5 79 104 26 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. Making deals, blocking sales</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Conflict talk in the marketplace</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c6 105 126 22 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. Buyer Beware</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Assessment and knowledge in the marketplace</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c7 127 152 26 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. Relationships in the marketplace</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On phatic communication</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c8 153 176 24 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. Market has a heart</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Empathy in conversational storytelling</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c9 177 194 18 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. Language as a transaction cost</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">As market models evolve</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.ref 195 208 14 Miscellaneous 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">References</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.app1 209 210 2 Miscellaneous 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Appendix A. The transcription conventions</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.app2 211 212 2 Miscellaneous 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Appendix B. Abbreviations</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.ind 213 217 5 Miscellaneous 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20210908 2021 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027210487 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 99.00 EUR R 01 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 149.00 USD S 644018452 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SCLD 14 Hb 15 9789027210487 13 2021029283 BB 01 SCLD 02 1879-5382 Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace</Subtitle> 01 scld.14 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/scld.14 1 A01 Xuehua Xiang Xiang, Xuehua Xuehua Xiang University of Illinois at Chicago 01 eng 229 xii 217 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.KRAD Kra-Dai languages 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.BIL Multilingualism 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SITIB Sino-Tibetan languages 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, <i>Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace</i> analyzes multimodal talk-in-interaction in the traditional marketplace as both an economic mechanism and a localized social space. Focusing on how buyers and sellers interact to complete transactions as marketplace shifts from sedimentations of road-side peddling to centralized built space and further to corporate e-commerce, Xiang takes into account the Janus nature of language as both incurring transaction costs and a powerful tool of information and control. By analyzing the socializing functions of language in the marketplace outside of and beyond economic dealings, the study additionally documents and depicts the roles of affect and morality in marketplace encounters. The study offers an overarching framework for future research on the mediating role of language and multimodal interaction in economic activities as well as on the interplay of information, knowledge, affect and morality in social encounters. 05 It is a good read for readers who are well-versed in interactional or discourse studies that have interest in understanding the complexities of institutionalised talk (in the marketplace). Gregory Ang, Nanyang Technological University, in Chinese Language and Discourse 15:1 (2024). 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/scld.14.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027210487.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027210487.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/scld.14.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/scld.14.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/scld.14.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/scld.14.hb.png 10 01 JB code scld.14.pre ix xii 4 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c1 1 8 8 Chapter 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. Language and social interaction in Southern Chinese marketplace</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c2 9 32 24 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. The research context, methodology and theoretical preliminaries</TitleText> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c3 33 58 26 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Initiating transactions</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Interactional asymmetry in competitive cooperation</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c4 59 78 20 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. The many shades and shapes of transaction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Transactions as an oral genre</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c5 79 104 26 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. Making deals, blocking sales</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Conflict talk in the marketplace</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c6 105 126 22 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. Buyer Beware</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Assessment and knowledge in the marketplace</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c7 127 152 26 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. Relationships in the marketplace</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On phatic communication</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c8 153 176 24 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. Market has a heart</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Empathy in conversational storytelling</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code scld.14.c9 177 194 18 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. 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