Vincent X. Wang

List of John Benjamins publications in which Vincent X. Wang is involved.

Title

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Vincent X. Wang

Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 207] 2011. xv, 199 pp.

Article

Wang, Vincent X. 2009 Pragmatic shifts in two translations of Fusheng Liuji: A descriptive study of request behaviour Target 21:2, pp. 209–234 | Article

This study focuses on translation shifts in speech act realisation patterns in two English translations of the Chinese work Fusheng Liuji. It employs analytical tools from cross-cultural pragmatics to describe speech act behaviour in the original and its translations. Lin uses more translation… read more