Publications

Publication details [#32006]

Skewis, Malcolm. 2003. Mitigated directness in Honglou meng: directive speech acts and politeness in eighteenth century Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2) : 161–189.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | indirectness | language and culture | politeness | speech act

Language as a subject

Chinese, Old

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on the correlation between indirectness and politeness, demonstrates that indirectness applied to individual speech acts, had no specific value in eighteenth century Chinese language and culture.