03304nam 2200745 a 450 991021381550332120240418034007.01-283-28351-497866132835110-87421-538-2(CKB)1000000000688616(EBL)316760(OCoLC)476107786(SSID)ssj0000365024(PQKBManifestationID)12136844(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365024(PQKBWorkID)10402222(PQKB)11778242(MiAaPQ)EBC3442774(Au-PeEL)EBL3442774(CaPaEBR)ebr10328686(CaONFJC)MIL328351(OCoLC)932313616(MiAaPQ)EBC316760(Au-PeEL)EBL316760(CaPaEBR)ebr11217605(OCoLC)437191470(EXLCZ)99100000000068861620060221d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading Chinese fortune cookie the making of Chinese American rhetoric /LuMing Mao1st ed.Logan, UT Utah State University Pressc20061 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-640-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.Introduction : thinking through paradoxes -- Opening topics : reading Chinese fortune cookie -- Face to face : Chinese and European American -- Indirection versus directness : a relation of complementarity -- Terms of contact reconfigured : ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism -- From classroom to community : Chinese American rhetoric on the ground -- Closing comment : Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to language hybridity---an advance over the traditional ""deficit model."" But Mao suggests that the ""hybridity"" approach is perhaps too arid or sanitized, missing rich nuances of mutual exchange, resistance, or even subversion. Working from Ang's concept of ""togetherness in differenceEnglish languageUnited StatesRhetoricChinese AmericansLanguagesChinese languageInfluence on EnglishLanguage and cultureUnited StatesIntercultural communicationUnited StatesSociolinguisticsEnglish languageRhetoric.Chinese AmericansLanguages.Chinese languageInfluence on English.Language and cultureIntercultural communicationSociolinguistics.808/.04208951073808.04208951073Mao LuMing1959-913839MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910213815503321Reading Chinese fortune cookie2047507UNINA