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09/28/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: "Why are Chinese tourists so rude?" This question, posted by an American retail worker on Reddit, has received over 2,000 replies. It reveals a widely held stereotype about Chinese people. With 169.2 million Chinese traveling overseas and spending $254.6 billion in 2019...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. People across the world are using English in their daily lives--but how are they doing this, and why? This project will investigate conflicts between emerging permissive and older purist ideologies of English in Germany. German young people seem to be driving the emergence...
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Fall 2019
This study examines the use of imperative turns in naturalistic Mandarin interaction. Imperatives in Mandarin are defined as sentences expressing a command (e.g., Chao 1968; Li & Thompson 1981; Sun 2006). Previous research has described that imperatives can be used as requests, demands,...