A metalinguistic approach to deconstructing the concepts of 'face' and 'politeness' in Chinese, English and Japanese

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1581-1611

  Haugh, Michael ^a   Hinze, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese; English; Face; Japanese; Metalanguage; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042074669     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00049-3     Document Type: Article

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