汉语文化中明示性面子影响因素的关联性研究

Correlatedness of Affecting Factors for Explicit Miànzi in the Chinese Culture

有关研究表明,中国人的面子具有自身的社会文化特性并倾向于明示性表征,这与西方人对面子的理解及其隐晦性的表征存在较大的差异,西方的礼貌—面子理论模式无法对这一语言文化现象给予全面合理的阐释。中国人的面子受诸多因素影响,具有社会、文化及认知的多重属性。本文从社会、认知、文化3个维度出发,旨在分析和解释汉语文化中面子明示性表征多维度影响因素的内在关联性及其背后的理据。

Relevant studies show that the Chinese Miànzi is socio-culturally characterized and liable to be explicitly represented,compared with the notion of face,which is differently interpreted by Westerners,and which is implicitly represented. Thus,the Politeness-face model proposed by Brown and Levinson fails to provide an overall,suitable account for this culture-specific Chinese Miànzi. It is demonstrated that the Chinese Miànzi is sensitively affected by various factors,being social,cultural and cognitive in nature. This article aims at exploring the inner correlatedness of these affecting factors and its motivations behind for the explicit Miànzi representation in the Chinese culture from the social-cultural-cognitive dimensions by adopting a method of Formal Concept Analysis.