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Publication details [#57896]

Chen, Rong, Lin He and Chunmei Hu. 2013. Lying between English and Chinese: An intercultural comparative study. Intercultural Pragmatics 10 (3) : 375–401.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | crosslinguistic perspective | definition | lying | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper proposes an initial pragmatic definition of the speech act of lying and evaluates it via questionnaire surveys amidst akin groups of American English and Chinese speakers.