Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese

• 1 April 1990
• journal article
• Published by Elsevier in Journal of Pragmatics
• Vol. 14  (2) , 237-257
• https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(90)90082-o

Abstract

Keywords

• MODERN CHINESE
• POLITENESS PHENOMENA
• POLITENESS MAXIMS
• HISTORICAL ORIGIN
• WESTERN NOTIONS
• MODERN CONCEPTION
• CHINESE COUNTERPARTS
• CRITICAL COMPARISON
• FOUR POLITENESS