A conversation analysis of self-praising in everyday Mandarin interaction  

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Wu, Ruey-Jiuan Regina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 13 (2011), page 3152–3176.
Topik: Conversation analysis Self-praise Chinese modesty Complaint Extreme case formulation Two-part turn-constructional format
Fulltext: Wu_R.J.R.pdf (217.37KB)

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As part of a larger effort to explore how the Chinese substantiate their concept of modesty in interpersonal communication, this article reports the results of a conversation-analytic study of the self-praising behavior of the Chinese in everyday social encounters. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 35 hours of audio- and videotaped face-to-face conversations collected in Beijing and Hebei, China during 2001–2010, I examine three previously undescribed or under-described practices that are observed in my data to be used in the service of self-praising in Mandarin conversation. These practices are what I call ‘the designedly bipartite [self-praise plus modification] turn format,’ ‘disclaiming an extreme case situation,’ and ‘treating the matter ostensibly as complainable.’ In addition to their turn design, I also discuss and provide a possible account for the interactional contingencies that give rise to the use of these practices

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