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Publication details [#51088]

Cheng, Winnie and Amy Tsui. 2009. ‘ahh ((laugh)) well there is no comparison between the two I think’: How do Hong Kong Chinese and native speakers of English disagree with each other? Journal of Pragmatics 41 (11) : 2365–2380.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

common ground | disagreeing | face maintenance | intercultural communication | language use

Language as a subject

Chinese, Hong Kong | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how, according to data of an intercultural conversational corpus, Hong Kong Chinese and native speakers of English manage disagreement. The former appear more inclined to reciprocal face maintenance via redressive language use and mitigating devices.