33.177, Books: Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication: Chen

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:55:05
From: Lian Wilson [lian.wilson at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication: Chen

 


Title: Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/exploring-identity-work-in-chinese-communication-9781350169326/ 


Author: Xinren Chen

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350169333 Pages: 264 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350169340 Pages: 264 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePub
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350169326 Pages: 264 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is often
(de)constructed and negotiated in communication in order to impact the outcome
of the interaction. Filling an important gap in current research, this book
offers the first systematic, pragmatic theory to account for the generative
mechanisms of identity in communication.

Using data drawn from real-life communicative contexts in China, Xinren Chen
examines why identity strategies are adopted, how and why identities are
constructed and what factors determine their appropriateness and
effectiveness. In answering these questions, this book argues that identity is
an essential communicative resource, present across various domains and able
to be exploited to facilitate the realization of communicative needs.
Demonstrating that communication in Chinese involves the dynamic choice and
shift of identity by discursive means, "Exploring Identity Work in Chinese
Communication" suggests that identity is intersubjective in communication in
all languages and that it can be accepted, challenged, or even deconstructed.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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