Publications

Publication details [#38937]

Sun, Hao. 2004. Opening moves in informal Chinese telephone conversations. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (8) : 1429–1465.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

everyday conversation | pragmatic function | telephone conversation | women's language

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper examines linguistic forms and pragmatic functions of telephone conversation openings in informal Chinese telephone conversations between female participants.