礼貌的文化特性研究.pdfVIP

1996 1( 35 ) “礼貌”的文化特性研究 北京语言学院　毕继万 Abstract Are the western theories on politeness unversal? After reviewing some major western comments on the concept of politeness and on the linguistic behavior of the Chinese, this paper argues that politeness is culture-specific and that the western theories cannot directly apply to Chinese politeness. A contrastive analysis is made in the paper T he cultural characteristics of Chinses politeness are also explored T