Research on Synergy of Coping Strategies of Major Events and Ideological and Political Education Strategies in Colleges and Universities

Colleges and universities respond to major events and also carry out ideological and political education in pursuit of the common internal goal:to center on the work of fostering virtue in education and buttress the free and all-round development of college students.Major events signify good opportunities and vivid materials for carrying out ideological and political education that is,in turn,the theoretical guidance and ideological guarantee to deal with major events.On the one hand,ideological and political educators in colleges and universities need to follow the law of the process of ideological and political education and formulate coping strategies for major events.On the other hand,they are expected to follow the law of college students’growth,optimize the strategies of ideological and political education,place importance on strengthening the synergy between the two,making joint efforts,and achieving the work objectives and education objectives in the special period.

A Study on the Application of Politeness Strategies in International Business Negotiation

Under the influence of economic globalization, international business negotiation is becoming more and more frequent. Politeness principle is an important pragmatic strategy in international business negotiation, representing good cultural quality and professional ethics image. In the course of business negotiation, how to properly use politeness language and pay attention to politeness strategy will affect the result of negotiation.

How EFL Learners from China and ASEAN Countries Politely Express Disagreement in an English Context:A Comparative Study

This paper aims to make a comparative study of cross-cultural communication upon a special speech act-"disagreement".38 undergraduates from China and 30 undergraduates from ASEAN countries were involved.They responded to the DCT(discourse completion test).Five contexts were selected and detailed descriptions of the scenarios were given.Social distance and gender were selected as the main variants in this study.From the results,we found that both groups of undergraduates generally ten d to use the same politeness strategies according to the same social distance,but gender was a more significant factor in politeness strategies adoption among EFL learners from ASEAN countries.Females tend to use negative strategies more than males do.We can conclude from the results that EFL learners from China and ASEAN countries incline to adopt the same politeness strategies in English context,but females from ASEAN countries are less likely to say“no”directly to express their disagreement compared to their counterpart.Those findings may offer reference to both sides during the pragmatic occasions of communicating.

Chinese Learners'Realization of Requests in English

Requests are face-threatening in nature and closely related to politeness strategies.The present paper makes an attempt to investigate the realization of requests by the Chinese learners of English to see whether they commit some pragmatic failures in common with other subjects invested,and whether the Chinese learners demonstrate some unique characteristics in realizing requests.

Politeness Strategies of Teachers' Feedback in Higher Vocational English Class

Based on the research of teachers' feedback and politeness strategies, this study adopts the natural research method-classroom observation, and analyzes ten typical politeness strategies teachers widely use in giving feedback to demonstrate how teachers improve the efficiency of classroom interaction by these strategies based on the collected data, aiming at giving inspiration to the use of teachers' politeness strategies to further improve English teaching and to develop students' competence in using English.