Focusing on the social phenomenon of politeness in daily communication,this study tackles the online language occurring in a Wechat group from the perspective of politeness strategies.The selected chat transcripts are...
In a conversation, one way of showing that the hearer is listening to the speaker is to produce the vocal signals which are called "BC (back channel) signals". These types of signals like "uh-uh", "hmm" and ...
The conversations in The Killers, which is one of Ernest Hemingway's most famous short stories and two thirds of them is composed of conversations, are analyzed in light of pragmatic conversation analysis theory, mai...