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Publication details [#26802]

Hopper, Robert and Chia-Hui Chen. 1996. Languages, cultures, relationships: Telephone openings in Taiwan. Research on Language and Social Interaction 29 (4) : 291–313.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational opening | language and culture | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explicates interpersonal relationship and cultural membership as revealed in telephone encounter openings of Mandarin Chinese speakers in Taiwan.