This paper explores similarities and differences in the application of positive and negative politeness strategies to English and Chinese business letters and illuminates underlying causes of such similarities and dif...
Politeness is a universal linguistic phenomenon but also relative by nature and subject to culture. The politeness in pragmatic study and its cultural specificity in cross cultural communication are explained. Some ta...
This essay illustrates two conversational principles: the Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principles and how they can be applied to language teaching field.
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 a...
IntroductionWith the development of paralinguistics, nonverbal interactions have drawn more and more attention (Larry et.al 2000) and silence is considered as the nonverbal interaction strategy in communication activi...
Conversational implicature is a feature of language in use. This paper is trying to explore the conversational implicature phenomenon in business negotiation. From pragmatics view, it analyses the potential meaning of...
With the introduction of pragmatic studies, politeness has aroused great interest among Chinese scholars. Different cultures have different traditions and values, which bring out different understanding and applicatio...