Variations in Chinese Gift Offering and Acceptance Interactions

Title

Variations in Chinese Gift Offering and Acceptance Interactions

Abstract

This talk was based on a collaborative project the speaker worked on with Dr. Yingling Bao (Indiana University). The project was sponsored by a CIBER Business Language Research and Teaching Grant, Centers for International Business Education and Research, Department of Education.

Registration was required for this event.

This lecture was part of the CEAS Webinar Series on Chinese Pragmatics, organized by UW-Madison Chinese Linguistics Professor Weihua Zhu.

Biography

Yunwen Su is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Linguistics and director of the Chinese program at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the acquisition, assessment, and pedagogy of second language pragmatics as well as Chinese pragmatics.