Lorrita N.T. Yeung

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Yeung, Lorrita N.T. 2019 Chinese rhetoric: Modality patterns and the question of indirection in written arguments Languages in Contrast 19:1, pp. 133–161 | Article
This study investigates the question of Chinese indirection as a result of the use of modality expressions, which is conventionally believed to be the hallmark of Chinese rhetoric (e.g. Young, 1994; Bond, 1991; Powers and Gong, 1994). The present research compares and contrasts the degree of… read more