How Do Chinese Bilinguals Respond To Variations of Interviewer Language and Ethnicity?  

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Pierson, Herbert D. ; Bond, Michael H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 1 (1982), page 123.
Fulltext: Journal of Language and Social Psychology-1982-Pierson-123-39.pdf (1.24MB)

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o Chinese are speaking English opposed University of Hong Kong bilinguals change as opposed 123 their non-verbal behaviours when to Cantonese and to fellow Chinese? In order to answer these speaking questions, they with Americans as 64 female English majors at the Chinese University were video-taped during a standardised interview in either Cantonese or Chinese ethnicity. Measures of were also taken to illuminate the English by self-perception meaning an interviewer of American or and of the perception of the interviewer potential changes in non-verbal behaviour. The impacts language and ethnicity on the non-verbal behaviours: the filled pauses, and increased greater redundancy gazing relative to when English; variables had higher speed, using functionally less Cantonese are the lesser talking different frequent suggestive combined with increased smiles and torso shifts emitted with the American interviewers were compatible with the Americans were relatively conditions. higher potency perceived by less fluent Perceiving using these and greater informality bilinguals. use of of its with which the The American interviewers were Cantonese than were interviewers in the other this lesser skill, the interviewees accommodated by downgrading frequency their of filled How Do Chinese Ethnicity? self-ratings pauses while of second language fluency answering. Bilinguals Respond We American Chinese girls and by increasing

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