On the universality of face: Evidence from chinese compliment response behavior

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1679-1710

  Yu, Ming Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Compliment responses; Cross cultural studies; Face; Lian; Mianzi; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043076448     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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