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Publication details [#26776]
Chang, Hui-Ching and G. Richard Holt. 1994. Debt-repaying mechanism in Chinese relationships: An exploration of the folk concepts of Pao and human emotional debt. Research on Language and Social Interaction 27 (4) : 351–387. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Lawrence Erlbaum
ISBN
0835-1813
Annotation
This article explores Chinese interactional debt-repaying mechanisms through (investigation of the philosophical roots of ) the folk concept of PAO and its related social mechanism, human emotional debt.