Linguistic and Cultural Contact Phenomena in a Mandarin Class in the U.S.
This study explores English language pragmatic phenomena in the Mandarin speech of a native Chinese language teacher as she interacts with American learners of Mandarin in a university classroom setting. I document and analyze her use of English backchannel 'mm hmm' in interactions that ar...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/844 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1956&context=theses |