<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><div style="margin: 0px;">Your example greatly helps, instead.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">打了人家一耳光 is of course OK and not uncommon, but it is only good when the context is available where <b>the act of slapping is not justified</b>.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">This can be tested through the introduction of context,</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">他打了人家一耳光，他被逮捕了。（√ he slaps, he was arrested)</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(221, 64, 50);"><b>*</b></span><b>他打了人家一耳光，是正当防卫。(× he slaps, this is justifiable defense）</b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(221, 64, 50);"><b>*</b></span><b>人家i打了他一耳光，人家被逮捕了。（× renjia</b> slaps, renjia was arrested<b>）</b></div><div style="margin: 0px;">人家打了他一耳光，属于正当防卫。（√ renjia<b> slaps, this is justifiable defense</b>）</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Context are always availalbe even when they are not expressed. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Let's come to the following sentence on the same website which is the reply to the question you've posted here.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PingFang SC", "Lantinghei SC", "Microsoft YaHei", arial, 宋体, sans-serif, tahoma; font-size: 16px;">先想想自己有没有错，如果我没有错的话，我会还</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PingFang SC", "Lantinghei SC", "Microsoft YaHei", arial, 宋体, sans-serif, tahoma; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(119, 201, 75);"><b>他(not renjia 人家)</b></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "PingFang SC", "Lantinghei SC", "Microsoft YaHei", arial, 宋体, sans-serif, tahoma; font-size: 16px;">一耳光。但如果我错的话，我会默默承受，并说声对不起。</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><div style="margin: 0;">More examples with the speakers stance overtly expressed，</div><div style="margin: 0;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0;">你打人家是违法的</div><div style="margin: 0;">You beat renjia is unlawful</div><div style="margin: 0;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0;">人家打你有理有据</div><div style="margin: 0;">Renjia beat you is justified</div><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0;">If you try to switch the position between you and renjia, both are 'unlawful'.</p><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><div style="position:relative;zoom:1"><p style="margin: 0">--</p><div>唐正大</div><div>中国社会科学院语言研究所《中国语文》编辑部</div><div>北京市建国门内大街5号，100732</div><div><br></div><div>Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,</div><div>No.5 Jianguomennei Dajie, Beijing, China; 100732</div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><p style="margin: 0;"><br></p><p>At 2022-07-05 11:30:59, "JOO, Ian [Student]" <ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk> wrote:</p><blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
Actually I was able to find the ’slap renjia’ phrase on the internet:
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<div class="">`If I slapped someone (renjia) and if I was slapped as well, what would you do if you were me? What should I do?’</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Thank you for the question, here's the example agian,</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">"我把這東西送給人家" will fail to be felicitous IF it not in a context such that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">renjia<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>is the justified receiver, beneficiary, or
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">That is why '你必须给人家道歉(you must apologize to renjia)' is good and '人家必须给你道歉(Renjia must apologize to you)' is bad.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Renjia is never subject to any duty, obligation, necessary condition, submission.</div>
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Dear Zhengda,
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<div class="">I never had the impression that renja had some power connotation - could you provide an example?</div>
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<div class="">Wo ba zhe dongxi song gei renjia</div>
<div class="">1SG ACC this thing send BEN someone</div>
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<div class="">In this phrase renjia simply means ‘someone’, with no connotation to power.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Chinese has a commonly used pronoun<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">renjia<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>（人家，people-home）, roughly referring to a third party in dialogues. Elusive as
it may be, this socially deictic pronoun is used on the condition that the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">renjia</i>-referring person<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><i class="">takes a priority over</i></b> (e.g.
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">It means that once<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">renjia</i> is used, the main clause predicate somewhere is obliged to ensure that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">renjia<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>takes
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Brown and Gilman (1960)'s Solidarity and Power indices prove powerful in explaining T-V divisions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Renjia</i> is special in its third-party denotation. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">May I have the honor of your remindings of some similar terms for the 'Powerful, Autonomous Other' in other languages, or some literature.</div>
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