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Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia
Edited by Francesca Bargiela and Dániel Z. Kádár
[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:1] 2011
► pp. 108–113
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Hao Sun & Dániel Z. Kádár (Eds.). It’s the Dragon’ Turn: Chinese Institutional Discourses. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008. Paperback. ISBN 978-3-03911-175-6 263 pp. http://www.peterlang.de UKP £34 / Euro €44 / USD $69

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