Publications

Publication details [#57404]

Ran, Yongping. 2013. The metapragmatic negation as a rapport-oriented mitigating device. Journal of Pragmatics 48 (1) : 98–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | metapragmatic concept | mitigation | negation | social interaction

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses the Chinese metapragmatic negation bushi + (S) + V + (NP), non-standard in terms of its performative force, as a rapport-oriented mitigating device in Chinese interpersonal interplay.