Chinese Immigrants' Perceptions of Semantic Dimensions of Direct / Indirect Communication in Intercultural Compliment Interactions With North Americans

Fong, Mary

doi:10.1080/106461798247014

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“…Cross-cultural communication researchers (e.g. Chen 1993, Fong 1998 also believe that the difference in CR use between Mandarin Chinese and American English stems from different views toward compliment giving in respective culture. In general, Chinese compliment is meant to acknowledge performancerelated achievements (Ye 1995).…”

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When in China, do as the Chinese do? Learning compliment responding in a study abroad program

Jin¹

2012

Chinese as a Second Language Research

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Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of English-speaking students studying abroad in China. Whether these students can learn and reflect in their behaviors certain uniquely Chinese-style speech acts during their sojourn in China merits investigation. This paper reports on a case study investigating what and how four American university-level students developed knowledge and skills of compliment responding in Mandarin Chinese when they were participating in an 8-week intensive summer language program in Shanghai. Among the four participants, two were from a 2 nd -year Mandarin Chinese class and two from a 3 rd -year class. The qualitative data were collected from one pre-study questionnaire, weekly semi-structured interviews (a total of 6 for each participant), participants' weekly reflective blogs, and the researcher's observation of participants' social interaction with native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. The results showed that despite their similar academic, linguistic, and cultural background, each participant experienced a heterogeneous and dynamic developmental process and developed different awareness and skills of compliment responding in Mandarin Chinese throughout the study abroad program. The researcher discussed how each participant's agency and individual social interaction with native speakers of Mandarin Chinese as well as local Chinese residents' socialization efforts during the study abroad program intertwiningly shaped what and how the participants learned about Mandarin Chinese compliment responding strategies.

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When in China, do as the Chinese do? Learning compliment responding in a study abroad program

Jin¹

2012

Chinese as a Second Language Research

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“…Based on the assumptions above, there is evidence to suggest that Chinese people may be indirect or implicit in their interpersonal communication (Fong 1998) and focus on in-group relationships (Wang and Tsai 2003). Cross-cultural differences in communication styles have been evidenced in many studies (Fong 1998;Smith and Haar 1990), but little attention has been paid to intra-cultural variations between different varieties of one language (Bresnahan et al 1999;Wiseman et al 1995). The objective of the present study is to explore the communication style of Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese students in relation to directness/explicitness-indirectness/implicitness and independence-interdependence by examining their realizations of compliments and refusals in equal-status situations and to investigate the extent to which regional variations influence the pragmatic performance between the two groups.…”

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Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

Ren¹,

Woodfield²

2013

Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics

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“…The research findings present a complex understanding of how English and Chinese speakers perform complimenting in various social contexts, especially after taking into consideration the social distance (i.e., power and prestige) as well as gender and age differences between the complimenter and the complimentee. Based on the studies on complimenting in the mainland of China (e.g., Chen, 1993;Fong, 1998;Ye, 1995;Yu, 1999Yu, , 2004Yu, , 2011 and those in the U.S. (e.g., Herbert, 1986Herbert, , 1990Pomerantz, 1984;Wolfson, 1983), more differences than similarities exist in the complimenting speech act, particularly direct complimenting, that are observed generally in both cultures.…”

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Developing Chinese Complimenting in a Study Abroad Program

Jin

2015

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics

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This article reports on an empirical study investigating what and how two college-level American learners of Mandarin Chinese developed their own understanding of the Chinese complimenting speech act while participating in a 7-week intensive language study abroad program. A case study approach was adopted with a focus on participants’ self-reflection data supplemented with the researcher’s observation data to unpack each participant’s pragmatic developmental process throughout the program. Guided by sociocultural theory, the study uncovered the dynamic, complex and highly individualized developmental process each participant experienced. The findings revealed that Chinese people’s special treatment of the two American students provided more constraints than opportunities for them to acquire Chinese complimenting. However, the learners’ own motivation and approaches to learning also significantly shaped their learning process and outcomes. Pedagogical suggestions for Chinese pragmatic development in study abroad contexts are provided.

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Chinese Immigrants' Perceptions of Semantic Dimensions of Direct / Indirect Communication in Intercultural Compliment Interactions With North Americans

Cited by 24 publications

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When in China, do as the Chinese do? Learning compliment responding in a study abroad program

When in China, do as the Chinese do? Learning compliment responding in a study abroad program

Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

Developing Chinese Complimenting in a Study Abroad Program

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