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Publication details [#12122]

Kong, Kenneth C.C. 1999. Politeness of service encounters in Hong Kong. Pragmatics 8 (4) : 555–575.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
context | politeness | power | social distance
Language as a subject
Cantonese
Person as a subject
Brown, R. | Levinson, S.
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

An evaluation of Brown and Levinson's model of politeness in light of a more context-specific model of Chinese politeness strategies.