Linguistic rituals for thanking in Japanese: Balancing obligations

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2150-2174

  Ohashi, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Debt credit equilibrium; Face; O rei; Reciprocity; Thanking

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949153591     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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