英文商务信函拒绝言语行为的礼貌策略研究.docxVIP

word. . 英文商务信函拒绝言语行为的礼貌策略研究_文档视界 广西师范大学  硕士学位论文  英文商务信函拒绝言语行为的礼貌策略研究  姓名：徐冬梅  申请学位级别：硕士  专业：外国语言学及应用语言学  指导教师：罗耀光   英文商务信函拒绝言语行为的礼貌策略研究  研究生：徐冬梅年级：2005级学科专业：外国语言学及应用语言学指导老师：罗耀光研究方向：语用学  中文  Politeness Strategies for the Speech Act of Refusal in English Business  Letters  Postgraduate: Xu Dongmei Grade: 2005 Orientation: Pragmatics Supervisor: Associate Prof. Luo Yaoguang Major: Foreign Linguistics the secondary one is to maintain goodwill with the reader. Any mishandling of the performance of refusal would alienate (potential) customers and bring economic losses. Because of this, politeness should be paid more attention to in English business letters conveying refusal news.  Therefore, the present thesis is intended to study refusals in English business letters from the perspective of politeness under the guideline of Brown and Levinson’s face theory. The author first makes an elaboration of the speech act of refusal, especially the one in English business letters, and the face theory. Based on these, the author conducts a thorough analysis of the politeness strategies for refusals in English business letters. It is found that the politeness strategies used to perform refusals include positive politeness strategies, negative politeness strategies as well as bald-on-record strategies, each of which finds a variety of linguistic realizations. In the process of analysis, each strategy is backed up with examples. By making quantitative analysis of these strategies, it is also found that when the writer performs the refusal the more frequently utilized strategy is negative politeness strategies, followed by positive politeness strategies. Bald-on-record is not used too much. To a certain degree, such distribution is related to the writer’s goals. The most favored linguistic realizations of politeness are  Attending to Hearer, Asserting common ground, Hedging, Stating reasons and Impersonalizing. Re