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Shen, Yin-Shyan Irene – 1992
A study of social and cultural factors that affect the appropriateness of verbal expressions in different languages focuses on the comparative uses of three common expressions ("thank you, I'm sorry, excuse me" and their equivalents) in English and Chinese. First, the usage patterns of the three expressions are explained briefly, and the…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
