Overview
Proposes a rigorous account of how language is stretched in reality television discourse
Presents real-life and stimulating empirical evidence to support the account
Provides pragma-linguistic and cross-cultural data analysis of English and Chinese
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About this book
This innovative book examines the discourse of reality television, and the elasticity of language in the popular talent show The Voice from a cross-cultural perspective. Analysing how and why elastic language is used in persuasion and comforting, a comparison between Chinese and English is made, and the authors highlight the special role that elastic language plays in effective interactions and strategic communication. Through the lens of the language variance of two of the world’s most commonly spoken languages, the insights and resources provided by this book are expected to advance knowledge in the fields of contrastive pragmatics and cross-cultural communication, and inform strategies in bridging different cultures. This study highlights the need to give the elastic use of language the attention it deserves, and reveals how language is non-discrete and strategically stretchable. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students engaged in elastic/vague language studies, cross-cultural pragmatics, media linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and communication studies.
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About the authors
Grace Zhang is Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.
Vahid Parvaresh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elastic Language in Persuasion and Comforting
Book Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Authors: Grace Zhang, Vahid Parvaresh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28460-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28459-6Published: 11 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28462-6Published: 12 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28460-2Published: 28 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 297
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Chinese, Australasian Culture