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1、AcomparativestudyofpolitenessbetweenEnglishandChineseculturesAbstract:ThisthesisattemptstomakeacomparativestudyofpolitenessbetweenEnglishandChinesecultures.PolitenessCanberealizedinanumberofways,amongwhichtheuseoflanguageisanimportantone.Withthedevel
2、opmentofpragmaticsinthepastyears,languageisusedtoshow-politenessandalsothedifferencesbetweendifferentlanguagesandcultures. Keywords:Politenessprinciple;Culturedifference 一、Introduction Politenessasasocialphenomenoncanbeobservedinalllanguagesandc
3、ultures,andithaslongbeenmadeanimportantobjectofstudyinlinguistics.ThereallyseriousstudyofpolitenessintheWesternlinguisticcirclescanbetracedbacktotheGermanRomanticMovementintheearly1920s.Inrecentyears,alongwiththerapidmovementtowardspragmatics,politen
4、esshasbecomethecentraltheme.Asacommonsocialphenomenon,politenessisnotonlyauniversallyhighly&#118aluedvirtue,butalsoawidelyemployedstrategytorealizetactfulandeffectivecommunication.Despiteitsuniversalityofpoliteness,thewaystorealizepoliteness,andthest
5、andardsofjudgmentdifferindifferencecultures.Beingunawareofsuchdifferenceswouldprobablyleadtotroubleorfailureinculturalcommunication. 二、PolitenessPrinciple (一)Definitionofpoliteness Politenessisauniversalphenomenoninhumansociety.Howeverdifferentlin
6、guistsandscholarsgivetheirdifferentinterpretationsofpoliteness.G.LeechintroducesthePolitenessPrinciplewhichrunsasfollows:Minimizetheexpressionofimpolitebeliefs,Maximizetheexpressionofpolitebelief.Leechspecifiedsixmaximsofthepolitenessprinciplewhichar
7、ethemeansbywhichoncanobtainthedegreeofpolitenessrequiredinacertainsituation. 1.Tactmaxim Minimizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichimplycosttoother,maximizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichimplybenefittoother 2.TheGenerositymaxim Minimizetheexpressionofbenefi
8、ttoself;maximizetheexpressionofcosttoself. 3.TheApprobationmaxim Minimizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichexpressdispraiseofother;maximizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichexpressapprovalofother.Othermaynotbethepersondirectlyaddressed,butsomeoneorsomethingdeart
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