The Pragmatic-Discursive Structure of Chinese Compliments in Naturally Occurring Conversation
Studies across different languages over the past three decades have claimed that compliments are formulaic in nature, realized by only a few syntactic and semantic formulae. Much of the research employs elicitation or ethnographic field notes data, which biases the analysis to single utterance, exp...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RJ621X |