Requests are face-threatening acts. When making requests, it is generally believed that people choose different requeststrategies for the sake of politeness to others. In this paper, with Cheng's(2001) self-polite...Requests are face-threatening acts. When making requests, it is generally believed that people choose different requeststrategies for the sake of politeness to others. In this paper, with Cheng's(2001) self-politeness model as the point of departure, itis argued that people's choice of request strategies is not only affected by the consideration of politeness to others but also by self-politeness. Factors that can influence people's choice of self-politeness strategies in making requests are also discussed.展开更多
Based on the theory of polite strategies,the writer proposes that verbal humor is a important polite strategy which occurs frequently in conversation exchanges of human communication.Case study adopted to reveal the p...Based on the theory of polite strategies,the writer proposes that verbal humor is a important polite strategy which occurs frequently in conversation exchanges of human communication.Case study adopted to reveal the pragmatic function of humorous utterance in real communications as positive,negative,indirect and self-polite strategies.展开更多
文摘Requests are face-threatening acts. When making requests, it is generally believed that people choose different requeststrategies for the sake of politeness to others. In this paper, with Cheng's(2001) self-politeness model as the point of departure, itis argued that people's choice of request strategies is not only affected by the consideration of politeness to others but also by self-politeness. Factors that can influence people's choice of self-politeness strategies in making requests are also discussed.
文摘Based on the theory of polite strategies,the writer proposes that verbal humor is a important polite strategy which occurs frequently in conversation exchanges of human communication.Case study adopted to reveal the pragmatic function of humorous utterance in real communications as positive,negative,indirect and self-polite strategies.
