The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-103

  Zhu, Hua ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Yuan, Qian ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Gift offering and acceptance; Politeness; Sequential analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033633871     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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