The Analysis of the Causes of Chinese People’s Incorrect Use of PP in the English language and the S.docVIP

The Analysis of the Causes of Chinese People?s Incorrect Use of PP in the English language and the S Abstract: Through discussing how the Polite Principle rescues the Cooperative Principle in English and Chinese ,this thesis proves that PP is suitable both in English and Chinese .What?s more, Chinese people has the thoughts and tradition of politeness. However when Chinese people confront with English they are easy to fall into embarrassments. This thesis points out two reasons of pragmatic failure. One is the cultural difference and the different use of PP in Chinese and English. The other is the unsuitable education system and belief. Finally, this thesis proposes three kinds of methods: 1. The supplement of authentic material which can reduce inauthentic input, improve cultural awareness and stimulate learning motivation.2.Changing the classroom from the teachers? arenas to students? forums 3. Learning English on the internet. Key words:PPcultural difference pragmatic failure authentic materialforum internet Ⅰ、Introduction 1.1 The Cooperative Principle and the Polite Principle “As a universal phenomenon, politeness is observed in every society, its main functions are maintaining social order; and misunderstandings by means of polite speech acts so as to attain the aim of communication.” (Li Tong, 2003:29) In order to help people to avoid pragmatic failure and to maintain harmonious interpersonal relationship and facilitate successful communication, linguistics had been eager to search for useful and helpful principle. Cooperative principle has been seen as a fundamental regulation of conversation and has been discussed for a long time since it was proposed by H.P.Grice in 1976. It is made up by four maxims cooperative principle (abbreviated: CP)which consists of four pragmatic sub-principles or “maxims”:1) Maxims of quantity2) Maxims of quality3) Maxims of relation4) Maxims of manner Objectively speaking, Grice?s new theory-CP brings about a