Politeness in historical and contemporary Chinese / Yuling Pan and Dániel Z. Kádár.

By:

Pan, Yuling

Contributor(s):

Kádár, Dániel Z, 1979-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781441180919
1441180915
9781441101198
1441101195

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politeness in historical and contemporary Chinese.DDC classification:

495.104 22

LOC classification:

P299.H66 P36 2011eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Introduction -- The myth of Chinese politeness: problems, framework and data -- Politeness in historical China -- Politeness in contemporary China -- The transitional period: what happened to honorifics? -- Deconstructing Chinese politeness -- Appendix I: Chronological list of Chinese dynasties -- Appendix II: Simiplified Chinese transcript of the texts studied -- Appendix III: Newsmaker labelling in People's daily and Guangzhou daily -- Appendix IV: Fonts in People's daily and Guangzhou daily -- Appendix V: Font size in People's daily and Guangzhou daily.

Summary: 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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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.