Publications

Publication details [#30750]

Liao, Chao-chih and Mary Bresnahan. 1996. A contrastive pragmatic study on American English and Mandarin refusal strategies. Language Sciences 18 (3-4) : 703–727.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | politeness | refusing | request

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This comparison of American English and Mandarin refusal strategies reveals both similarities and culture-specific differences, reflecting the modest nature of the Oriental countries and the self-confident nature of the Western countries.