Publications

Publication details [#56491]

Wu, Ruey-Jiuan Regina. 2012. Self-Praising Through Reporting: Strategic Use of Two Reporting Practices in Mandarin Conversation. Discourse Processes 49 (8) : 622–659.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse strategy | face-to-face interaction | praising | report

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Drawing on a corpus of videotaped face-to-face conversations in Beijing and Hebei, this conversation analytic study explores the self-praising behavior of Mandarin speakers in everyday social interaction through the strategic use of two reporting practices.