Politeness phenomena in pre-modern Chinese : invitations and gift-giving in Feng Menglong's Sanyan vernacular stories
This research aims to shed fresh light on our understanding of how (im)politeness manifests itself as a discursive phenomenon by examining invitations and gift-giving (henceforth I&G) in pre-modern Chinese. To this end, a corpus of I&Gs from Feng Menglong’s (1574-1646) trilogy of vernacular...
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University of Huddersfield
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.745154 |