Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Record 11 of 17
Previous Record Next Record
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Mao, LuMing, 1959-

Title Reading Chinese fortune cookie [electronic resource] : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / LuMing Mao.

Imprint Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, c2006.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 177 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Chinese Americans -- Languages.
Chinese language -- Influence on English.
Language and culture -- United States.
Intercultural communication -- United States.
Sociolinguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0874216400 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780874216400

 
    
Available items only