Strategic embarrassment and face threatening in business interactions

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2948-2963

  Chang, Wei Lin Melody ^a   Haugh, Michael ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

(Mandarin) Chinese; Embarrassment; Face; Interactional achievement; Relationship; Taiwanese

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961023380     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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