Comparative Study on Politeness in Chinese and English Languages英文.docVIP

Comparative Study on Politeness in Chinese and English Languages 第 PAGE 2页 共21页 Comparative Study on Politeness in Chinese and English Languages 摘要：礼貌作为人类文明的体现，它不仅是一种社会现象，也是一种语言现象。自二十世纪六十年代起，礼貌现象就已经开始引起语言学家、心理学家、人类学家及社会学家们的注意。随着跨文化交际研究的迅速发展，不同文化中礼貌的概念与内涵及在跨文化交际中如何做到礼貌的得体，越来越多地引起人们的关注。由于人们对什么是礼貌和怎样做才是有礼貌持有不同观点，因此在跨文化交际中，常常会出现一些误解。这些误解常常导致交际失误乃至失败，因此，对礼貌现象，特别是在跨文化交际中英汉两种语言中所体现的礼貌现象进行对比研究是非常必要的。对英汉语礼貌现象从其理论基础到其表现形式进行对比研究，对学习英语的中国学生和英语教学很有益处。 关键词:礼貌 英语 汉语 “文化价值观” Abstract：Politeness, as a symbol of human civilization, is a social-cultural as well as linguistic phenomenon that can be found in all societies all over the world. It has drawn much attention from linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists since 1960s. As a result of the rapid development of the study of cross-cultural communication, people are now getting more and more interested in investigating what politeness is and how to be polite in cross-cultural interactions. As people from different cultures may have different views on what politeness is and how to be polite, misunderstanding or even breakdown may occur if the cultural differences of politeness are neglected in cross-cultural communication. Therefore, it is necessary and of great significance for the Chinese learners of English to have a good knowledge of politeness in both Chinese and English. This thesis is intended to make a comparative study on politeness in English and Chinese from the perspectives of both the theoretical principles and the manifestations of politeness, and analyze that the different cultural values between them are the main cause of such differences. The comparative study and analysis of polite behavior and politeness principles in English and Chinese are expected to be of some help to Chinese learners of English and English teaching as well. Key Words: Politeness English Chinese Culture Values Introduction Politeness seems to be a social value that occurs in all civilized societies, even though the social norms