Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”

Based on discourse of a Chinese talk show, this study aims to test and verify Brown & Levinson’s (hereafter B&L) theory of politeness. Politeness is culture specific, and in this respect, the term of “face” provides more evidence. Adopting descriptive text analysis, this study analysed the t...

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Main Authors: Wu, Meimei, Wang, Jianning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Publisher 2019
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/48053/
http://eprints.usm.my/48053/1/Politeness%20Strategies%20of%20Chinese%20in%20A%20Talk%20Show%20%E2%80%9CIf%20You%20Are%20The%20One%E2%80%9D.pdf