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Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses the use of elastic language in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and interactional linguistics, as well as professionals involved in healthcare and communication.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical foundations; 3. Methodology; 4. Elastic language used in Chinese; 5. Elastic language used in English; 6. Comparison between Chinese and English in regarding elastic language use; 7. Perceptions of and attitudes towards the use of elastic language in Chinese; 8. Perceptions of and attitudes towards the use of elastic language in English; 9. Comparison between Chinese and English regarding participants' feedback; 10. General discussion; Conclusions and implications; Appendix: English questionnaire used in Perth, Australia; Appendix: Chinese questionnaire used in Taiwan.
About the author
Grace Qiao Zhang is Emeritus Professor at Curtin University, Australia. She has published numerous works in the fields of pragmatics and cross-cultural communication, including Elastic Language (CUP, 2015).Ming-Yu Tseng is Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He has published in Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics & Society, Pragmatics & Cognition, Lingua, English for Specific Purposes, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.
Summary
Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses the use of elastic language in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and interactional linguistics, as well as professionals involved in healthcare and communication.
Foreword
Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses elasticity in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective.
