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The research aims to analyze how thanking functions as a speech act in Chinese and Japanese cultures, focusing on its role in face restoration.

How thanking serves as a face-repaying act?

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Explores how thanking restores face balance in social media communications across cultures, suggesting important cultural implications.

The research aims to analyze how thanking functions as a speech act in Chinese and Japanese cultures, focusing on its role in face restoration.
Collected data through discourse completion tasks on social media.
Participants composed messages thanking benefactors.
Analyzed the speech act of thanking using interactional and relational typology.
Thanking serves as a temporary restoration of face balance in social interactions.
Chinese thanking helps bridge interpersonal distance, while Japanese thanking emphasizes context.
Cultural values of reciprocation and modesty underscore similarities in thanking across both cultures.

Qi et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Explores how thanking restores face balance in social media communications across cultures, suggesting important cultural implications.

The research aims to analyze how thanking functions as a speech act in Chinese and Japanese cultures, focusing on its role in face restoration.
Collected data through discourse completion tasks on social media.
Participants composed messages thanking benefactors.
Analyzed the speech act of thanking using interactional and relational typology.
Thanking serves as a temporary restoration of face balance in social interactions.
Chinese thanking helps bridge interpersonal distance, while Japanese thanking emphasizes context.
Cultural values of reciprocation and modesty underscore similarities in thanking across both cultures.

Qi et al. (2026) studied this question.

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