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Author Mao, LuMing

Title Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie : the Making of Chinese American Rhetoric
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages)
Contents Introduction: thinking through paradoxes -- 1. Opening topics: reading Chinese fortune cookie -- 2. Face to face: Chinese and European American -- 3. Indirection versus directness: a relation of complementarity -- 4. Terms of contact reconfigured: ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism -- 5. From classroom to community: Chinese American rhetoric on the ground -- 6. Closing comment: Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again
Summary LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index
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Subject English language -- United States -- Rhetoric
Chinese Americans -- Languages
Chinese language -- Influence on English.
Language and culture -- United States
Intercultural communication -- United States
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Arts & Humanities.
Chinese language -- Influence on English
English language -- Rhetoric
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
Sociolinguistics
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006004974
ISBN 9780874215380
0874215382
1283283514
9781283283519
9786613283511
6613283517