Rong Chen

Chinese Politeness (eBook, PDF)

Diachrony, Variation, and Universals in Politeness Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009281171
• Artikelnr.: 70913586

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.