Publications

Publication details [#56772]

Yuan, Elaine J. 2012. From “Perpetual Contact” to Contextualized Mobility: Mobile Phones for Social Relations in Chinese Society. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 5 (3) : 208–225.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | language and culture | politeness | social interaction | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study maps mobile communication in Chinese society, to the level that it plays into the indirect, particularistic, high-context Chinese social interaction norms and relation-oriented cultural patterns, as contextualized mobility of diffuse personal ties.