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Situated politeness
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ISBN: 1283122677 9786613122674 1441142657 9781441142658 9781441159496 1441159495 1623561302 9781441150745 1441150749 9781623561307 Year: 2011 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This new study approaches the concept from an original perspective, namely situatedness. Although politeness research often concentrates on examining how speeches or discourses themselves are situated with regards to different places and contexts, the focus on just one situation, and various text types within it, can also be of value. Situated Politeness is concerned with disentangling the factors which govern our behaviour within a given social context as well as ac


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Politeness in historical and contemporary Chinese
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ISBN: 1283066726 9786613066725 1441180915 9781441180919 9781441101198 1441101195 9781847062758 184706275X 9781441106124 144110612X Year: 2011 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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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.

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