Investigating the use of vague language as a communicative strategy in Chinese business negotiations

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Investigating the use of vague language as a communicative strategy in Chinese business negotiations

Chinese has long been perceived as being a hánxù (‘inscrutable’) language with indirect ways of communicating. This study aims to investigate indirectness in Chinese communication by exploring the use of vague language as a communicative strategy in Chinese business negotiations where vagueness play...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zhao, Xiaohua
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2010
Subjects:	sequential patterns linguistic representations indirectness Chinese communication communicative strategy Chinese business negotiations vague language
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2204

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