Publications

Publication details [#56659]

Lee, Cher Leng. 2012. Self-presentation, face and first-person pronouns in the Analects. Journal of Politeness Research 8 (1) : 75–92.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | face maintenance | historical linguistics | pronoun | self-presentation

Language as a subject

Chinese, Classical

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

This paper elucidates the (historical) use of first-person pronouns as contextualized ways of self-presentation and indexes of distinct self types in facework in the Confucian Classic Analects.