Correlation between Linguistic Competence and the Application Level of Linguistic Politeness Strateg.docVIP

Correlation between Linguistic Competence and the Application Level of Linguistic Politeness Strateg 　　Abstract：Politeness principles has received more and more attention from domestic scholars in the world of linguistics and pragmatics since 1970s，but it is still vague to most researchers because of the complexity and controversy.This paper，based on current literature，examines and analyzes the following issues：the different aspects of linguistic competence，different levels of linguistic competence，the correlation between linguistic competence and application level of linguistic politeness strategies. 　　Keywords：linguistic competence；linguistic politeness strategies；application level；correlation 　　1.Literature Review 　　1.1 Face Theory 　　Grice，in the 1975 years，put forward cooperative principle to explain how people cooperate with each other in speech communication，namely according to keep quality，quantity，four principles and ways，to facilitate the communication smoothly.But in actual social life，people in very many cases do not adhere to the principle of partnership.What is the motive of such violation of the cooperative principle？ Brown and Levinson（1987）attributed such deviation to a consideration of politeness.Based on the sociology Goffman’s face behavior theory，Brown and Levinson set up their own face theory to explain language manners like in hand in the international. 　　Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory is based on Goffman’s face behavior theory.They believe that all the social member has a rational face.An face have two aspects of mutual contact：Negative Face，namely the individual right to freedom，without interference；Positive Face，that is，positive self shape，which included at this kind of self-image by credit to desire.Brown and Levinson further define face as peoples basic desire or demand，and negative face refers that people want their action not to be interferenced，and active face refers approval of ideas or needs from others. 　　1.2 Leech：Politenes