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Xu, Zhanghong; Yan, Alan – English Language Teaching, 2020
With the booming of Chinese internet corporations, various wrongdoings have been frequently exposed to the public, which damages their corporate image. To face the challenge, these companies usually resort to apologies for image restoration. This study investigates how apology strategies are employed by Chinese internet corporations to restore…
Descriptors: Internet, Corporations, Pragmatics, Public Relations
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Song, Zongwei – English Language Teaching, 2020
This article discusses the features, reasons, and values of the mushrooming Chinese English neologisms (CENs). Generally speaking, CENs are a variety of English words, namely Chinese English words, some of which have entered Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Based on data from Web Corp Live, the author finds that: (1) CENs take on the grammatical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Chinese
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Li, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2020
The debate on how to understand such expressions of multiplication entailing "times" as "n times more than" and "increase (by) n times" has been on and off in China since the 1980s. A review of literature seems to suggest that despite early-stage divergence in understanding, there is a general consensus among the…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)