Responding to compliments A contrastive study of politeness strategies between American English and Chinese speakers
- 31 July 1993
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Pragmatics
- Vol. 20 (1), 49-75
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(93)90106-y
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