The Directive System in Mandarin Interaction from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Project: Collaborative Research Project

Project Details

Project Title (In Chinese)

汉语普通话互动中指令系统的跨语言研究

Description

The research uses state-of-the-art technologies like eye tracking glasses to document and examine how Mandarin speakers use language and nonverbal behaviors to perform directives to get others to do things in everyday interaction and in their interaction with English speakers.

Key findings

Currently we are working on a paper on Commissives.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/09/23 → …

Keywords

  • Mnadarin interaction
  • offers
  • directives
  • Conversation Analysis
  • Multimodality

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