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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

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.