摘要
The Politeness Principle proposed by Leech complements Grice'Cooperative Principle to a certain extent in explaining the indirectness of language. However,the nature of politeness is its relativity.Determined by various factors such as social and cultural ones,the appropriateness of politeness at utterance level is affected by the appropriateness of the pragmatic distance between the participants. Different from the interpersonal relationships,pragmatic distance is calculated and determined in the process of communication varying with the variation of the communicative factors. Pragmatic distance is dynamic and can be maintained and altered by participants by using certain linguistic expressions to achieve the appropriateness of politeness in communication.
The Politeness Principle proposed by Leech complements Grice ’ Cooperative Principle to a cer-tain extent in explaining the indirectness of language .However , the nature of politeness is its relativity . Determined by various factors such as social and cultural ones , the appropriateness of politeness at utter-ance level is affected by the appropriateness of the pragmatic distance between the participants .Different from the interpersonal relationships , pragmatic distance is calculated and determined in the process of communication varying with the variation of the communicative factors .Pragmatic distance is dynamic and can be maintained and altered by participants by using certain linguistic expressions to achieve the appro -priateness of politeness in communication .
出处
《陇东学院学报》
2014年第1期64-68,共5页
Journal of Longdong University
