Rong Chen (San Bernardino California State University)

Chinese Politeness

Diachrony, Variation, and Universals in Politeness Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Proposing a coherent account of Chinese politeness and comparing it with politeness of several linguacultures, this book demonstrates the need of a universal theory of politeness. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781009281188
• ISBN-10: 1009281186
• Artikelnr.: 68166892

Autorenporträt

Rong Chen is Professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages and Professor Emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino. He has published more than sixty articles in pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonology, semantics, and stylistics. He has authored, edited, and translated seven books, including English Inversions (2003, de Gruyter) and Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics (2022, de Gruyter).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pragmatics, politeness, and Chinese politeness
2. Hierarchy and harmony: roots of Chinese face and politeness
3. Chinese face
4. Chinese politeness and theories of politeness
5. Synchronic consistency and variation
6. Diachronic stability and change
7. In comparison with East Asian languages
8. In comparison with English: an east-west divide?
9. Politeness theories
Epilogue.