Kadar and Pan's exciting researchcompares traditional and
contemporary Chinese polite communication norms and maps the
similarities and differences between them. The approach is
innovative, because whilst intercultural politeness has received
considerable attention,intracultural comparative politeness is a
neglected issue. Considering the importance of China on the world
stage, this understanding of Chinese politeness norms is pivotal,to
both experts of communication studies and those that
haveinteractions with the Chinese community. The secondary
objective of the book is to study the driving forces behind the
large-scale diachronic formation of Chinese politeness norms. It
takes a sociolinguistic approach to examining how social changes
and changes in discursive practice lead to the change of politeness
norms. The study will contribute to both politeness research and
historical pragmatics by comparing traditional and contemporary
Chinese politeness norms and analysing the driving force behind
their diachronic shift. It will be invaluable to researchers and
postgradute students in the field of linguistics, in particular
politeness research, pragmatics and historical pragmatics. It is
clear, instructive and requires no prior knowledge of Chinese.
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