Politeness Theorizing and Operationalization in Two Less-Examined Settings: Professional Contexts and Internet-Mediated Interactions

Yi Shan

doi:10.28914/Atlantis-2023-45.2.14

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Yi Shan Nantong University

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Author Biography

Yi Shan, Nantong University

Yi Shan received his PhD in English and Applied Linguistics from Tongji University, China. He is currently a professor at Nantong University. His main research interests include discourse analysis with a special emphasis on politeness, impoliteness and pragmatics, English for Specific Purposes and research methods in linguistics. He has published extensively in Chinese and international journals, including Language Teaching and Linguistic Research, Journal of Pragmatics and Frontiers in Psychology. His most recent book-length publication is A Study of the Discourse Marker in Chinese Spontaneous Speech (2022, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press).

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