Directness in Chinese Business Correspondence of the Nineteenth Century

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-237

  Beamer, Linda ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Communication; Culture; Directness; Indirectness; Linguistic pragmatics; Power dimension; Proximity dimension; Speech act theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037274074     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651902250948     Document Type: Review

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