Reconstructing the Politeness Principle in Chinese: A response to Gu’s approach
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DOI: 10.1515/ip-2018-0024
Abstract: Abstract Back in the early 1990s, Gu Yueguo formulated the Politeness Principle and its maxims to explain Chinese politeness phenomena, as a counter reaction to Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory, which claims that politeness is… read more here.
Keywords: politeness; principle chinese; politeness principle; approach ... See more keywords