Language, multimodal interaction and transaction studies of a southern Chinese marketplace

Language, multimodal interaction and transaction studies of a southern Chinese marketplace

"Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xiang, Xuehua, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Series:Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; v. 14.
Subjects:
China.
Chinese language > Discourse analysis.
Business communication > China > Hainan Sheng (China)
Businesspeople > China > Hainan Sheng (China) > Language.
Chinese language > Business Chinese.
Conversation analysis > China > Hainan Sheng (China)
Multilingualism > China > Hainan Sheng (China)
Anthropological linguistics.
Chinese language > Spoken Chinese.
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Electronic books.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Language and social interaction in [a] Southern Chinese marketplace
  • The research content, methodology and theoretical preliminaries
  • Initiating transactions: interactional asymmetry in competitive cooperation
  • The many shapes of transaction: transactions as an oral genre
  • Making deals, blocking sales: conflict talk in the marketplace
  • Relationships in the marketplace: on phatic communication
  • Market has a heart: empathy in conversational storytelling
  • Language as a transaction cost: as market models evolve
  • Conclusion.

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