Small Talk in English and Chinese – A contrastive case study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Small Talk in English and Chinese – A contrastive case study

Published:2023-12-12 Issue:4 Volume:70 Page:503-523
ISSN:2559-8201
Container-title:Acta Linguistica Academica
language:
Short-container-title:ALing

Author:

House Juliane¹²³,Kádár Dániel Z.⁴²⁵^ORCID,Simoes Laura³

Affiliation:

1. University of Hamburg, Germany

2. Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary

3. Hellenic American University, USA

4. Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China

5. University of Maribor, Slovenia

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper, we present a contrastive pragmatic analysis of Small Talk in English and Chinese. We use a radically minimal, finite and interactional system of speech acts to study DCTs conducted with U.S. American native speakers of English and native speakers of Chinese. Our analysis points to a number of important differences between Small Talk in the two linguacultures contrasted, such as a reliance on routines in English Small Talk, and an overall reliance on the speech act Remark in Chinese. The influence of the classic sociolinguistic variables Power and Social Distance for the enactment of Small Talk is also shown to be different in English and Chinese.

Funder

Tématerületi Kiválósági Pályázat

Publisher

Akademiai Kiado Zrt.

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies

Link

https://akjournals.com/downloadpdf/journals/2062/70/4/article-p503.xml

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