Gender variances in Chinese and Korean requests: A continuum rather than polarity

This paper examines connections between gender and request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, a topic of relatively limited past research. Data was collected through role-plays, and data analysis was based on the coding system of the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (Blum-Kulka,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rue, Y., Zhang, Grace
Other Authors: Elhindi, Yousif
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Common Ground Publishing 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25081