Politeness in contemporary Chinese: a postmodernist analysis of generational variation in the use of compliments and compliment responses

There is some evidence from scholarship that politeness norms in China are diversified. I maintain that a study aiming to provide systematic evidence of this would require an approach to politeness phenomena that is able to address such diversity. Drawing upon the insights of recent scholarship on t...

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Main Author: Yun He
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2012
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Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
Politeness norm
Chinese
Compliment
Compliment response
Spontaneous naturally occurring conversation
Interview
Postmodernist approach
Intention
Generation
Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9460
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