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Publication details [#32086]

Haugh, Michael and Carl Hinze. 2003. A metalinguistic approach to deconstructing the concepts of 'face' and 'politeness' in Chinese, English and Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (10-11) : 1581–1611.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | face maintenance | metalanguage | politeness

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article introduce a metalanguage as a framework for simplifying the analysis of 'face' and 'politeness' across cultures (English, Chinese, Japanese), based on the observation that both concepts include external evaluations of people.