5. Why the “inscrutable” Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm 1
3. 2. Anglo scripts against “putting pressure” on other people and their linguistic manifestations 31
4. 3. “Lift your game Martina!”: deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English 65
5. 4. Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore 99
6. 5. Why the “inscrutable” Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese 127
7. 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world 171
8. 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish 199
9. 8. “When I die, don’t cry”: the ethnopragmatics of “gratitude” in West African languages 231
10. Author index 267
11. General index 273