ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how strong disagreement, extended concurrent speech, facework, and guānxì management are discursively interwoven in six excerpts of EMF conversations. The findings reflect the influence of contextual elements, such as topics, social distance, status difference, interactional goals, identities, the informal setting, the shared habitat, and the common culture, on the practice of extended concurrent speech for strong disagreement in EMF. The EMF speakers neither refrain from enacting the communicative act nor react to it negatively for various reasons. They seem to practice the act in a similar manner to the Mandarin speakers, suggesting possible pragmatic transfer.
