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Politeness Strategies in English and Chinese Business Letters 英汉商务信函中的礼貌策略.pdf

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科技信息 Politeness Strategies in English and Chinese Business Letters 广东科贸职业学院 查琳琳 [Abstract]This paper explores similarities and differences in the application of positive and negative politeness strategies to Eng- lish and Chinese business letters and illuminates underlying causes of such similarities and differences. The results indicate that English and Chinese business letters have some common features and great discrepancies in categories and the distribution of posi- tive and negative politeness strategies. It is argued that common situational factors, different cultural backgrounds and different syntactic features result in their similarities and differences. [Key words]politeness strategies business letters cultural background 1. Introduction ther cooperation, which can be accomplished by taking notice of Politeness phenomena have been drawing many pragmatists ’ex- the receiver ’s wants, goods or problems, emphasizing the sender ’s tensive attention. Many studies such as Yang ’s (2013) [1], Ruan’s interest in and approval of the receiver with intensifying modifiers, (2012) [2] and Zheng ’s (2011) [3] have been conducted on politeness and seeking agreement with the receiver, as illustrated in the follow- strategies adopted in oral or written interaction within one culture. ing: However, as f
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