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Publication details [#29791]
Lee-Wong, Song Mei. 1994. Address forms in modern China: Changing ideologies and shifting semantics. Linguistics 32 (2) : 299–324. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper investigates Chinese polite address forms as historical by-products that document ideological (focus) change and generate semantic shifts reflected in their pragmatic meaning.