Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction
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Publishing Details
Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction
By (Author) Dr Yuling Pan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
9th May 2000
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Communication studies
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
Cultural studies
Social, group or collective psychology
302.20951
Physical Properties
Hardback
184
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
369g
Description
This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.
Author Bio
YULING PAN is Managing Director of the Asian Sociocultural Research Projects in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University./e
