Publications

Publication details [#12116]

Lee-Wong, Song Mei. 1998. Face support - Chinese particles as mitigators: a study of ba a/ya and ne. Pragmatics 8 (3) : 387–404.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
directness | face maintenance | politeness | requesting | speech act
Language as a subject
Chinese
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

It is found that the particles in question function as politeness strategies in direct request speech acts in Chinese.