Chinese Discourse and Interaction: Theory and Practice - Hardcover

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Yuling Pan is a Sociolinguist at the U.S. Census Bureau, where she directs multilingual projects for survey research. She has conducted extensive research on Chinese politeness, intercultural communication, professional communication, and discourse analysis. Her current research interests extend to cross-cultural communication norms and survey interviews, politeness and institutional discourse, survey translation and interpretation. Her publications include Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction (Ablex, 2000), Professional Communication in International Settings (co-authored with Suzanne Scollon, and Ron Scollon. Blackwell, 2002), Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Communication - A Comparative Analysis (co-authored with Daniel Z. Kadar, Continuum, in preparation), Cantonese-English Dictionary (ed.) (Dunwoody Press, forthcoming). Daniel Z. Kadar is a Research Fellow at the Department of Oriental Studies of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has conducted extensive research on historical Chinese politeness, politeness research, historical pragmatics, Chinese letter writing and Critical Discourse Analysis. He currently studies the driving force behind the collapse of historical Chinese politeness during the 19th and early 20th centuries. His publications include Terms of (Im)politeness (ELTE University Press), Historical Chinese Letter Writing (Continuum, in press), and Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Communication - A Comparative Analysis (co-authored with Yuling Pan, Continuum, in preparation).