20.500.12556/DKUM-96100 Chinese "face"-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts a historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry This paper presents a historical contrastive pragmatic study of the use of Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts. The rationale behind this investigation is that contemporary Mandarin and the Minnan Dialect operate with very different inventories of “face”-related expressions, and it is worth considering whether this difference also applies to historical language use, and, if so, how. Studying this matter is particularly relevant for historical pragmatic research because “face”-related expressions have been under-represented in the field. Our study is based on a corpus of nineteen Peking Opera scripts and a comparable corpus of nineteen Teochew Opera scripts, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The results of our analysis show that the historical Mandarin corpus operates with a duality of the “face”-related expressions lian and mian, in a similar way to modern Mandarin, even though we also found differences between the ways in which these expressions were used in former times and at present. Yet such differences are eclipsed if we contrast historical Mandarin with the Teochew scripts where we found a very different “face” duality than in Mandarin, namely a duality of yan and mian. This duality also differs from what one can witness in present-day Minnan. face-related expressions pragmalinguistics contrastive pragmatics Mandarin Minnan Peking Opera Teochew Opera pragmalingvistika historična lingvistika raba jezika kontrastivna lingvistika tekstna lingvistika true false true John Benjamins Publishing Company Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-12-02 03:10:08 2026-02-24 14:48:30 2026-02-25 03:27:57 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 175-205 št. 2 Letn. 26 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2023-09-29 2024-02-29 81'42:81'27 190573827 10.1075/jhp.23020.che 1566-5852 RAZ_Chen_Jiejun_2025.pdf RAZ_Chen_Jiejun_2025.pdf 1 E944C2E1D0A78E6E0AB28DD422B8FA89 ac19b7666ccbcb7b38a721945c29622fdf37fa21738f37416b7d3a41a8ee75e7 b01ebbbf-1187-11f1-a1a6-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203779 https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.23020.che 0 ba85aa7f-1187-11f1-a1a6-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203780 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0