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benjamins.com>Title: Intercultural Conversation Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 118 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P_bns_118 Author: Winnie Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hardback: ISBN: 1588114651, Pages: xii, 279 pp., Price: USD 126.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027253609, Pages: xii, 279 pp., Price: EUR 105.00 Abstract: This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study investigates the ways in which culturally divergent conversationalists manage their organizational and interpersonal aspects of the unfolding conversations. The study focuses on five features of conversational interaction - disagreements, compliments and compliment responses, simultaneous talk, discourse topic management and discourse information structure - where cultural values and attitudes are particularly evident. For each of the features, hypotheses are formulated and tested through the detailed analysis of twenty-five intercultural conversations. This quantitative analysis is then followed by qualitative analysis of excerpts from the conversations to show the ways in which conversational interaction is performed and negotiated. The study shows in very revealing ways that intercultural conversations involve a complex, interactive and collaborative process of communication between the participants. Table of contents List of figures and tables ix Acknowledgements xi Transcription notation xii 1. Communication across cultures 1-16 3. Research methodology and data collection 57-64 5. Compliments and compliment responses 95-117 6. Simultaneous talk 119-146 8. Discourse information structure 193-229 9. Conclusion 231-241 Authors index 265-269 Lingfield(s): Discourse Analysis Pragmatics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8617.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue