Aggression and perceived national face threats in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese CMC discussion boards

Multilingua

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 343-372

  Kádár, Dániel Z ^a   Haugh, Michael ^b   Chang, Wei Lin Melody ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer mediated Communication; Face; Identity; Impoliteness; Verbal aggression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878208322     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/multi-2013-0016     Document Type: Article

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