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1、AcomparativestudyofpolitenessbetweenEnglishandChineseculturesAbstract：ThisthesisattemptstomakeacomparativestudyofpolitenessbetweenEnglishandChinesecultures.PolitenessCanberealizedinanumberofways，amongwhichtheuseoflanguageisanimportantone.Withthedevel
2、opmentofpragmaticsinthepastyears，languageisusedtoshow-politenessandalsothedifferencesbetweendifferentlanguagesandcultures. Keywords：Politenessprinciple；Culturedifference 一、Introduction Politenessasasocialphenomenoncanbeobservedinalllanguagesandc
3、ultures，andithaslongbeenmadeanimportantobjectofstudyinlinguistics.ThereallyseriousstudyofpolitenessintheWesternlinguisticcirclescanbetracedbacktotheGermanRomanticMovementintheearly1920s.Inrecentyears，alongwiththerapidmovementtowardspragmatics，politen
4、esshasbecomethecentraltheme.Asacommonsocialphenomenon，politenessisnotonlyauniversallyhighly＆#118aluedvirtue，butalsoawidelyemployedstrategytorealizetactfulandeffectivecommunication.Despiteitsuniversalityofpoliteness，thewaystorealizepoliteness，andthest
5、andardsofjudgmentdifferindifferencecultures.Beingunawareofsuchdifferenceswouldprobablyleadtotroubleorfailureinculturalcommunication. 二、PolitenessPrinciple ?。ㄒ唬〥efinitionofpoliteness Politenessisauniversalphenomenoninhumansociety.Howeverdifferentlin
6、guistsandscholarsgivetheirdifferentinterpretationsofpoliteness.G.LeechintroducesthePolitenessPrinciplewhichrunsasfollows：Minimizetheexpressionofimpolitebeliefs，Maximizetheexpressionofpolitebelief.Leechspecifiedsixmaximsofthepolitenessprinciplewhichar
7、ethemeansbywhichoncanobtainthedegreeofpolitenessrequiredinacertainsituation. 1.Tactmaxim Minimizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichimplycosttoother，maximizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichimplybenefittoother 2.TheGenerositymaxim Minimizetheexpressionofbenefi
8、ttoself；maximizetheexpressionofcosttoself. 3.TheApprobationmaxim Minimizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichexpressdispraiseofother；maximizetheexpressionofbeliefswhichexpressapprovalofother.Othermaynotbethepersondirectlyaddressed，butsomeoneorsomethingdeart
