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Politeness in Professional Contexts
Edited by Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 311] 2020
► pp. 107–126

Chapter 5
Politeness and relational work in novel digital contexts of healthcare communication

| The University of Hong Kong
| Lingnan University
Keywords: relational work, relational strategy, health communication, digitally-mediated communication, health apps, humour, mainland China, cultural practices
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Health App
  • 3.Data and method
  • 4.Data analysis
  • 5.Discussion and conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 21 August 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.311.05zay
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