Song Mei Lee-Wong

List of John Benjamins publications in which Song Mei Lee-Wong is involved.

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 2009 Discourse as communicative action: Validation of China’s new socio-cultural paradigm Qiye wenhua ‘enterprise culture’ Pragmatics 19:2, pp. 223–239 | Article

Qiye wenhua/’enterprise culture’ has emerged as a new paradigm in China’s economic reforms. Hailed as China’s new ‘culture’ it featured in an interview with certain executives of non-state owned enterprises. In the examination of this discourse, the concept of ‘communicative action’ (Habermas,… read more

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 2003 How English is Hong Kong? A review of Hong Kong English: Autonomy and Creativity edited by Kingsley Bolton (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press) Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 13:2, pp. 301–312 | Review article

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 2001 Coherence, focus and structure: The role of discourse particle ne  Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 139–153 | Article

This paper examines the usage of NE in Chinese dialogues and monologues excerpted from a Chinese collection of narratives. The analysis of NE as a constituent in discourse structure shows that linguistically it functions like a grammatical connector. From a cognitive point of view, NE signals… read more

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 2001 Review of Pang (): Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:2, pp. 311–313 | Review

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 1998 Face support – Chinese particles as mitigators: A study of ba a/ya and ne Pragmatics 8:3, pp. 387–404 | Article

Lee-Wong, Song Mei 1994 Imperatives in requests: Direct or impolite – observations from Chinese Pragmatics 4:4, pp. 491–515 | Article