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Publication details [#53222]

Yang, Ping. 2010. Nonverbal gender differences: examining gestures of university-educated Mandarin Chinese speakers. Text & Talk 30 (3) : 333–357.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | gender | gesture | intercultural communication | university

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper describes different gender-specific gestures used by university-educated Mandarin Chinese speakers in talk-in-interaction, in order to help other language speakers to communicate more efficiently with Mandarin speakers in the intercultural context.