Self-denigration in Mandarin Chinese: An alternative account from sincerity

Augustine, 1952, Lying (M. Muldowney, trans.), 53 Bok, 1978 Camden, 1984, White lies in interpersonal communication: a taxonomy and preliminary investigation of social motivations, West. J. Speech Commun., 48, 309, 10.1080/10570318409374167 Chana, 1987, From sincerity to authenticity: adolescents' views of the ‘True Self, J. Pers., 55, 583 Chen, 1993, Responding to compliments: a contrastive study of politeness strategies between American English and Chinese speakers, J. Pragmat., 20, 49, 10.1016/0378-2166(93)90106-Y Chen, 1996, Food-plying and Chinese politeness, J. Asian Pac. Commun., 7, 143 Chen, 2020, End-of-dinner food offering: a three-way contrastive study, 1 Chen, 2010, Responding to compliments in Chinese: has it changed?, J. Pragmat., 42, 1951, 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.006 2009 Dietz, 2019, White and prosocial lies, 288 Feng, 2003, 论诚信原则在人际交流中的制约功能 [A study on normative functions of the sincerity and trust principle in interpersonal communication], J. Tsing Hua Univ. (Philos. Soc. Sci.), 18, 76 Fish, 2017, The sound of (in)sincerity, J. Pragmat., 121, 147, 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.10.008 Fitzmaurice, 2020, Sincerity and epistolarity: multilingual historical pragmatic perspectives, Multilingua, 39, 1, 10.1515/multi-2019-0092 Gu, 1990, Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese, J. Pragmat., 14, 237, 10.1016/0378-2166(90)90082-O Guignon, 2004 Hornung, 2016, Classifying prosocial lies: an empirical approach, Int. Rev. Pragmat., 8, 219, 10.1163/18773109-00802003 Hu, 2006, 华人社会中的自谦初探 [Self-modesty in Chinese society], Psychol. Sci., 1392 Kádár, 2007, On historical Chinese apology and its strategic application, J. Politeness Res., 3, 125 Kádár, 2010, Exploring the historical Chinese polite denigration/elevation phenomenon, 117 Kádár, 2012, Historical Chinese politeness and rhetoric. a case study of epistolary refusals, J. Politeness Res., 8, 93, 10.1515/pr-2012-0006 Kádár, 2017 Kádár, 2021, Admonishing: a paradoxical pragmatic behaviour in ancient China, Pragmatics, 31, 173, 10.1075/prag.20022.kad Leech, 2014 Lin, 2004, 礼貌与真诚 [Politeness and sincerity], J. PLA Foreign Lang., 22, 16 Mahon, 2008, The definition of lying and deception Mai, 2021, 汉语自贬的语用研究 [A pragmatic study of self- denigration in Chinese], Foreign Lang. Educ., 42, 71 Meibauer, 2005, Lying and falsely implicating, J. Pragmat., 37, 1373, 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.12.007 Mills, 2011 Pan, 2011, Historical vs. contemporary Chinese linguistic politeness, J. Pragmat., 43, 1525, 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.018 Pan, 2011 Ran, 2020, 人际语用学视角下的礼貌与关系 [A study of politeness and relation from interpersonal pragmatic approach], Foreign Lang., 43, 35 Ran, 2018, Building mutual affection-based face in conflict mediation: a Chinese relationship management model, J. Pragmat., 129, 185, 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.01.013 Searle, 1979 Shu, 1993, 言语交际中的扬升抑降与礼貌原则 [Elevation and denigration in verbal communication and politeness principle], Foreign Lang., 7 Shvanyukova, 2020, ‘With the greatest sincerity’: expressing genuineness of feeling in nineteenth-century business correspondence in English, Multilingua, 39, 81, 10.1515/multi-2018-0130 Tamošiūnaitė, 2020, Sincerity in Lithuanian epistolarity: between truth and emotion, Multilingua, 39, 105, 10.1515/multi-2019-0014 Thomas, 2020, Sincere or heart-felt?: sincerity, convention, and bilingualism in French and Spanish letters, Multilingua, 39, 59, 10.1515/multi-2018-0112 Toni, 2020, Expressing friendship in letters: conventionality and sincerity in the multilingual correspondence of nineteenth-century Catholic churchmen, Multilingua, 39, 33, 10.1515/multi-2018-0133 Trilling, 1968 Trilling, 1971 Varga, 2012 Walkinshaw, 2019, Self-denigration as a relational strategy in lingua franca talk: Asian English speakers, J. Pragmat., 139, 40, 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.10.013 Wang, 2000, 也谈礼貌原则—兼与顾曰国先生商榷 [discussion on the principle of politeness－A talk with Mr. Gu], J. Hunan Univ. (Soc. Sci. Ed.), 80 Williams, 2002 Williams, 2018 Williams, 2020, Performative speech act verbs and sincerity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English letters, Multilingua, 39, 11, 10.1515/multi-2019-0011 Xia, 2017, 三方恭维回应策略研究 [A study of compliment responses in triadic contexts], Foreign Lang. Teach. Res., 49, 688 Yu, 2003, On the universality of face: evidence from Chinese compliment response behaviour, J. Pragmat., 35, 1679, 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00074-2 Yu, 2013, Two interactional functions of self-mockery in everyday English conversations: a multimodal analysis, J. Pragmat., 50, 1, 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.01.006 Zhang, 2016, 汉语恭维回应语“对比恭维”模式的会话分析 [A conversational analysis of “contrast compliment” in compliment responses in Mandarin], Mod. Foreign Lang., 5, 605 Zheng, 2009, 中西方文化中‘谦虚’的不同内涵及其成因 [Different connotations and causes of ‘modesty’ in Chinese and Western cultures], Res. Contin. Educ., 144 Zhou, 2020, Moral stance taking as a device of covert aggression in Chinese political language use, Discourse, Context & Media, 36, 1, 10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100415 Zhou, 2021, Self-denigration in 21st century Chinese, J. Politeness Res.-Lang. Behav. Culture, (2),, 265 Zhou, 2018, Reconstructing the politeness principle in chinese: A response to Gu’s approach, Intercult. Pragmat., 15, 693, 10.1515/ip-2018-0024 Zhu, 1998, 书信语篇礼貌现象调查 [A survey of politeness in letter discourse], Foreign Lang. Teach. Res., 1, 15