Social actions in Mandarin conversations

Authors

  • Guodong Yu Ocean University of China
  • Yaxin Wu Ocean University of China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.39905

Keywords:

Mandarin, Linguistics

Author Biographies

  • Guodong Yu, Ocean University of China

    Guodong Yu was a professor of linguistics at Shanxi University, though he has
    recently joined Ocean University of China. He attained his PhD in linguistic
    pragmatics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, and he studied
    conversation analysis as an academic visitor at the University of York (UK),
    Loughborough University (UK), State University of New York at Albany (USA),
    and UCLA (USA). His research interests are social actions and Mandarin grammar,
    doctor–patient interactions, and news interviews from the CA perspective.

  • Yaxin Wu, Ocean University of China

    Yaxin Wu, PhD (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, P.R. China), was a professor of linguistics at Shanxi University, though she has since recently joined Ocean University of China. Her publications include research on communicative strategies, meta-pragmatics and the interface between pragmatics and social psychology, miscommunication and personal relationships in language, and social interaction. Currently her research focus is on particles in Mandarin from the conversation analytic perspective.

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2020-11-16

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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2020): Special Issue: Social actions in Mandarin conversations

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Yu, G., & Wu, Y. (2020). Social actions in Mandarin conversations. East Asian Pragmatics, 5(3), 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.39905