Responding to compliments in Chinese: Has it changed?

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1951-1963

  Chen, Rong ^a   Yang, Dafu ^a  

^a XI'AN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brown and Levinson; Chinese; Compliment; Compliment acceptance; Compliment rejection; Compliment response; Leech; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952951663     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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