Ming-chung Yu

On the universality of face: evidence from chinese compliment response behavior

Ming-chung Yu · Journal of Pragmatics · 2003 · 228 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12

Sociolinguistic Competence in the Complimenting Act of Native Chinese and American English Speakers: A Mirror of Cultural Value

Ming-chung Yu · Language and Speech · 2005 · 100 citations

Language Studies, Foreign Languages, Linguistics +15

Universalistic and culture-specific perspectives on variation in the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language

Ming-chung Yu · Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) · 2015 · 90 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +16

Learning how to read situations and know what is the right thing to say or do in an L2: A study of socio-cultural competence and language transfer

Ming-chung Yu · Journal of Pragmatics · 2010 · 73 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +16

Interlinguistic Variation and Similarity in Second Language Speech Act Behavior

Ming-chung Yu · Modern Language Journal · 2004 · 68 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +17