AViewonEnglishPoliten_省略_maCulturalPersp

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1、中国校外教育中旬刊教研视点AViewonEnglishPolitenessfromaCulturalPerspective◆LuXiaofang(TheForeignLanguageDepartmentofChongqingMedicalUniversity)Abstract:Politenessplaysanimportantroleinhumancommunication．Asasocio－pragmaticphenomenon，itsactualmanifestationsandstandardsforjudgmentarecultur

2、allydifferentduetotheinfluenceofculturalvalueorientations．ThispaperanalyzesthecharacteristicsofEnglishpolitenessfromaculturalperspective．ItaimstoimproveourunderstandingofEnglishpolitenessandcross－culturalawareness．KeyWords:EnglishpolitenessEnglishcultureindividualismlowpowe

3、rdistanceIIntroductionvaluesandhenceisattributedtoaderogatorysensebytheChinese，whereasitisWhatispoliteness?Differentlinguistsandscholarsgivetheirdifferentinter-adominantvalueorientationofEnglishcultureandisdeeplyrootedinthemindpretationsofpoliteness．Leech(1983:82)seespolite

4、nessasaregulativefactorofitspeople．ininteractioninordertomaintain"thesocialequilibriumandthefriendlyrela-ThemostsalientcharacteristicsofindividualisminEnglishcultureare"I"tion"．BrownandLevinson(1987)viewpolitenessasaredressiveactiontakenconsciousnessandself－orientation(Hu19

5、99:352)．AccordingtoHofstede，tocounter－balancethedisruptiveeffectofface－threateningacts．Yulemain-Englishpeoplelayimportanceonindividualidentity，rightsandneeds．Theytainsthatpolitenessis"asystemofinterpersonalrelationsdesignedtofacilitatesubordinatethegroupgoalstotheirpersonal

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7、002:27)．Thecorebuildingdefiningpoliteness．Sowecanseeitisnoteasytogiveasatisfactorydefinitionofblockofindividualismisthecollectiveunconsciousof"autonomousself"．Putpoliteness．Onthewhole，Westernlinguiststendtoconsiderpolitenessasadifferently，Englishpeopleconstruethemselvesasan

8、independententity，valuingmeansofavoidingoffensesandmaintainingsocialdistanceaswell