Reconsidering chinese modesty hong kong and mainland chinese evaluative judgements of compliment responses

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 181-201

  Spencer Oatey, Helen ^a,b   Ng, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989367430     PISSN: 09576851     EISSN: 15699838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/japc.11.2.05spe     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Chen, R. (1993) Responding to compliments. A contrastive study of politeness strategies between American English and Chinese speakers. Journal of Pragmatics, 20:49-75.
2. Chen, R. (1996) Food-plying and Chinese politeness. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 7(3&4):143-155.
3. Gao, G. & Ting-Toomey, S. (1998) Communicating Effectively with the Chinese. London: Sage.
4. Gu, Y. (1990) Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 14:237-257.
5. Herbert, R.K. (1989) The ethnography of English compliments and compliment responses: a contrastive sketch. In: W. Olesky (ed.), Contrastive Pragmatics, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 3-35.
6. Holmes, J. (1986) Compliments and compliment responses in New Zealand English. Anthropological Linguistics, 28(4): 485-508
7. Holmes, J. (1995) Women, Men and Politeness. London: Longman.
8. Leech, G.N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman.
9. Loh, W. C. T. (1993) Responses to Compliments across Languages and Cultures: a Comparative Study of British and Hong Kong Chinese (Department of English, Research Report Series No. 30 pp. 1-89). City University of Hong Kong.
10. Ma, E.K.W. and Fung, A.Y.H. (1999) Re-sinicization, nationalism and the Hong Kong identity. In C. So and J.Chan (eds.) Press and Politics in Hong Kong: Case Studies from 1967 to 1997. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 497-528.
11. Pomerantz, A. (1978) Compliment responses. Notes on the co-operation of multiple constraints. In J. Schenkein (ed.) Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction, New York: Academic Press, 79-112.
12. Rose, K. & Ng, C. K. F. (1999) Inductive and deductive approaches to teaching compliments and compliment responses. Perspectives, 11(2), 124-169. (Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.)
13. Spencer-Oatey, H., Ng, P. and Dong, L. (2000) Responding to compliments: British and Chinese evaluative judgements. In H. Spencer-Oatey (ed.) Culturally Speaking. Managing Rapport through Talk across Cultures. London: Continuum, 98-120.
14. Ye, L. (1995) Complimenting in Mandarin Chinese. In G. Kasper (ed.) Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 207-295.
15. Ylanne-McEwen, V. (1993) Complimenting behaviour. Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, 14(6):499-508.
16. Yuan, Y. (1996) Responding to compliments: a contrastive study on the English pragmatics of advanced speakers ofEnglish. BUILD 20 Proceedings: 861-872.