Items for "politeness strategies"

How to get rid of unwanted suitors: Advice from Hmong-American women of two generations

This paper analyzes the recommendations made by Hmong immigrant women and Hmong-American women for responses to a face-threatening scenario, in which a woman is invited to play a courting game with a man in whom she has no interest...

Keywords: Hmong, courtship, advice-giving, politeness strategies, women and power, language shift