Publications

Publication details [#54838]

Pan, Yuling and Dániel Z. Kádár. 2011. Historical vs. contemporary Chinese linguistic politeness. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (6) : 1525–1539.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | historical explanation | language use | politeness | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This comparative analysis of the gulf between historical and contemporary Chinese politeness, shows the strong impact of 19th century colonization on native language use and politeness practices.