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Chang, Hui-Ching; Holt, G. Richard – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1994
Explores the mechanisms of "pao" and human emotional debt underlying Chinese human relationships through interviews with 55 Chinese in Taiwan. The definition, recompensation, minimization, and manipulation of human emotional debt and the linguistic code by which relations can be made closer or more distant following the principles of…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Confucianism, Cultural Traits, Emotional Response