Affiliation:
1. Ton Duc Thang University Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)
2. Vietnam National University Hanoi (Vietnam)
Abstract
Abstract
This study builds upon Schegloff’s model as a template to investigate the phenomenon of how Vietnamese people perform their
telephone openings. We use a corpus of 50 audio recordings of Vietnamese telephone openings to analyze such a phenomenon through
both Conversation Analysis and Ethnography methods in order to capture the data in naturally-occurring settings, and to provide
insights into Vietnamese culture that makes Vietnamese telephone openings different from North American ones. The findings
demonstrate that Vietnamese telephone openings share some common features with telephone openings in different language
communities, especially North American culture. Nevertheless, a number of variations, due to language and cultural differences,
still exist. We discuss both theoretical and practical implications.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
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