Publications

Publication details [#56298]

Lin, Chienjer Charles, Helen Woodfield and Wei Ren. 2012. Compliments in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese: The influence of region and compliment topic. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (11) : 1486–1502.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | language and culture | language variety | pragmatic competence | topic

Language as a subject

Chinese | Chinese, Taiwanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores how region, a macro-social variable, and compliment topic, a micro-social factor, affect the Chinese complimenting of Taiwan and Mainland Chinese higher education students.