Publications

Publication details [#31916]

Thompson, Sandra A. and Hongyin Tao. 1991. English backchannels in Mandarin conversations: A case study of superstratum pragmatic 'interference'. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (3) : 209–223.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

back channel cue | bilingualism | conversational analysis | language transfer | pragmatic implication

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper on language transfer presents data that suggest interference from a speaker's second language (American English) to his or her first language (Mandarin Chinese).