Although a large number of studies have focused on various aspects of politeness,very little is known about how politeness intention is activated cognitively during verbal communication.The present study aims to explo...
The paper advocates a view of politeness as courteousness, which emphasizes the contextual features and social cultural assumptions rather than so-called 'politeness rules'. Based on Brown and Levinson's(1987) theory,...
1.IntroductionThe rapid growth and expansion of global interaction inbusiness,education,the arts,etc.,have made it important forindividuals working in bicultural settings to have anunderstanding of the dynamics of cro...