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Reading Chinese fortune cookie : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / LuMing Mao.

Author/creator Mao, LuMing, 1959-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLogan, UT : Utah State University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxi, 177 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
English language--United States --Rhetoric.
Chinese Americans--Languages.
Chinese language--Influence on English.
Language and culture--United States.
Intercultural communication--United States.
Sociolinguistics.
Contents Introduction : thinking through paradoxes -- Opening topics : reading Chinese fortune cookie -- Face to face : Chinese and European American -- Indirection versus directness : a relation of complementarity -- Terms of contact reconfigured : ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism -- From classroom to community : Chinese American rhetoric on the ground -- Closing comment : Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.
LCCN 2006004974
ISBN0874216400 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780874216400

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