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标题：Motives of Indirectness in Daily Communication -- An Asian Perspective
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作者：Fachun Zhang ; Hua You
期刊名称：Asian Culture and History
印刷版ISSN：1916-9655
电子版ISSN：1916-9663
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：99
DOI：10.5539/ach.v1n2p99
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：Indirectness is often used in our daily communication as a major communicative skill to keep a harmonious interpersonal relationship. From an Asian perspective, this paper is to discuss the various motives of indirectness, such as: politeness, self-protection, humor, rejection or denial, etc.