Publications

Publication details [#39065]

Matsumoto, Yoshiko. 1988. Reexamination of the universality of face: Politeness phenomena in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (4) : 403–426.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | language and culture | politeness

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper questions the universality of the proposed constituents of 'face' in Brown and Levinson's politeness theory in the light of the Japanese language and culture.