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Publication details [#56660]

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2012. Historical Chinese politeness and rhetoric. A case study of epistolary refusals. Journal of Politeness Research 8 (1) : 93–110.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | politeness | pragmatics | refusing | rhetoric

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article examines the link between historical Chinese politeness and rhetorical patterns by analyzing the pragmatic act of refusing in epistolary discourse.