Gender Difference in Applying Politeness Strategy——Based on EMMA  

作　　者：陈峰[1] 

机构地区：[1]浙江东方职业技术学院人文系

出　　处：《科技信息》2010年第18期125-129,共5页Science & Technology Information

摘　　要：Research on face theory and gender language is very popular nowadays. In social interaction, there exists 'face threatening acts', which prevents communication from going smoothly. In order to reduce the threatening acts, and maintain the face, both speakers and hearers use politeness strategy. Many factors have great influence on the application of politeness strategy. Gender is an important one. At the same time understanding gender language enables people to communicate efficiently. However seldom studies have connected the two subjects or have been conducted on fictional language. Based on Brown and Levinson 's face theory, this paper conducts a contrastive study on gender difference in applying politeness strategy, using Jane Austen's book EMMA as the corpora. The data research is carried out. The researches reveal that there is great difference in use of politeness strategy by the characters of different genders in EMMA.Research on face theory and gender language is very popular nowadays. In social interaction, there exists ＇face threatening acts＇, which prevents communication from going smoothly. In order to reduce the threatening acts, and maintain the face, both speakers and hearers use politeness strategy. Many factors have great influence on the application of politeness strategy. Gender is an important one. At the same time understanding gender language enables people to communicate efficiently. However seldom studies have connected the two subjects or have been conducted on fictional language. Based on Brown and Levinson ＇s face theory, this paper conducts a contrastive study on gender difference in applying politeness strategy, using Jane Austen＇s book EMMA as the corpora. The data research is carried out. The researches reveal that there is great difference in use of politeness strategy by the characters of different genders in EMMA.

关 键 词：语言学 礼貌原则 语用学 语言关系 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]