Politeness in East Asia
Politeness in East Asia

Author: Dániel Z. Kádár

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-08

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 113949757X

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We use politeness every day when interacting with other people. Yet politeness is an impressively complex linguistic process, and studying it can tell us a lot about the social and cultural values of social groups or even a whole society, helping us to understand how humans 'encode' states of mind in their words. The traditional, stereotypical view is that people in East Asian cultures are indirect, deferential and extremely polite - sometimes more polite than seems necessary. This revealing book takes a fresh look at the phenomenon, showing that the situation is far more complex than these stereotypes would suggest. Taking examples from Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and Singaporean Chinese, it shows how politeness differs across countries, but also across social groups and subgroups. This book is essential reading for those interested in intercultural communication, linguistics and East Asian languages.

Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese
Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese

Author: Yuling Pan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-03-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1441180915

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Pan and Kadar's exciting research compares historical and contemporary Chinese (im)polite communication norms and maps the similarities and differences between them. Considering the importance of China on the world stage, understanding Chinese politeness norms is pivotal, to both experts of communication studies and those who have interactions with the Chinese community.

Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese
Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese

Author: Yuling Pan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-03-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1441101195

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Pan and Kadar's exciting research compares historical and contemporary Chinese (im)polite communication norms and maps the similarities and differences between them. Considering the importance of China on the world stage, understanding Chinese politeness norms is pivotal, to both experts of communication studies and those who have interactions with the Chinese community.

Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction
Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction

Author: Yuling Pan

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2000-05-09

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.

Chinese Politeness
Chinese Politeness

Author: Rong Chen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1009281186

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Through a thorough treatment of Chinese politeness, this book argues that universalism is of paramount importance in politeness theorizing.

Politeness Across Cultures
Politeness Across Cultures

Author: F. Bargiela-Chiappini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0230305938

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This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languages, including some key-languages in politeness research, such as English, and Japanese, as well as some lesser-studied languages, such as Georgian.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis

Author: Chris Shei

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1351819399

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Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.

DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF ONLINE IDENTITIES BY CHINESE CELEBRITIES ON SINA WEIBO
DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF ONLINE IDENTITIES BY CHINESE CELEBRITIES ON SINA WEIBO

Author: MINFEN LIN

Publisher: American Academic Press

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1631816764

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Weibo, a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, a popular microblogging service platform originated from China, has become one of the leading SNSs in Greater China Region. It features huge numbers of active users as well as verified high-profiled celebrity users and corporate users. Incorporating the insights from socio-psychology field to build an integrated framework of analysis for describing and explaining the processes and products of online identity construction by Chinese celebrities, the book represents an attempt to investigates how Chinese celebrities discursively construct their personal and social identities on Sina Weibo. The book can serve as a reference to the research on identity construction with its significant insights regarding the multi-faceted nature and relational dynamics of identity construction on social media and the uncovering of linguistic acts and features constituting relational identity. In addition, the insights from the study could be a reference to provide practical implications for personal branding and personal rapport management in the new Web 2.0 era.

Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca
Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca

Author: Weihua Zhu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1315280914

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Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception proposes a model of context, practice, and perception and raises awareness of the importance of understanding language use and perception in context in order to avoid intercultural communication misunderstandings. This book provides an overview of previous research on the pragmatics of Chinese and English as a multilingua franca in multilingual contexts. It argues that context is socioculturally shaped, interactionally constructed, and personally related. Context can influence and be established by the practice and perception of communicative acts. This book also combines the proposed model with the discursive-interactional approach to uncover the interplay of context, practice, and perception of extended concurrent speech for strong disagreement by native Chinese speakers in spontaneous conversations in Mandarin and English as a multilingua franca.