Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric

• Main Author: Mao, LuMing (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University Press of Colorado 2006
• Subjects: Education; Teaching of students with English as a second language (TESOL); Language teaching & learning (other than ELT); Language & Literature
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 langu...