摘 要
“面子”理论和礼貌原则是语用学用于解释话语含义的两条重要原则。由于中西方文化价值取向不同，交际中对礼貌语言的语用原则的取舍也存在很大差异，因此有必要对中西方文化下的礼貌语用现象进行对比研究，这不仅能扩大比较研究的领域，也能有助于得体的运用礼貌语言，提高跨文化交际能力。
本文共分六章。
第一章，第二章，对礼貌用语的定义作了介绍及礼貌用语的分类。
第三章，介绍了本文的研究理论基础即Brown 和Levinson的“面子”理论，以及Leech的礼貌原则。
第四章，回顾了中西方学者对礼貌用语及礼貌原则做出的研究，并揭示了礼貌用语与语用学研究的关系。
第五章，说明了本文作者对语用原则的理论的取舍的原因，并对招呼及对称赞的回答两类礼貌用语做出分析。
第六章，总结本文研究的结果及启示。
关键词：“面子”理论；礼貌原则；礼貌用语；
ABSTRACT
The “face” theory and politeness principle are widely known pragmatic principle used to interpret the literal sense. English –speaking and Chinese culture are different in the choice of pragmatic principles as the different sense of value. Therefore, this thesis aims to compare the pragmatic phenomena in English-speaking and Chinese culture in the hope of broadening the field of comparative study and helping people to communicate appropriately in cross-culture communication.
This paper falls into five chapters. The Chapter One and Chapter Two introduce the definition and categories of politeness.
Chapter Three specifies Brown and Levinson’s “face” theory and Leech’s politeness principle, all together forming the theoretical foundations of the present thesis.
Chapter Four reviews the major researches on politeness and politeness principle done by scholars in West and in Domestic. And point out the relation between politeness language and pragmatic research..
Chapter Five reads the reason why the author choose this theory, and do a analysis of greeting and response to compliment which stand for two categories of politeness language use.
The last chapter draws a conclusion of the thesis and point out its meaning.
Keywords：”Face” theory; politeness principal; politeness language
Contents
1.Introduction 1
2. Definition and categories of politeness 3
2.1 Definition of politeness 3
2.2Categories of politeness language 3
3.Theoretical framework on politeness 5
3.1Brown and Levinson's "Face" theory 5
3.2 Leech’s politeness principle 5
4.Research on politeness on broad and at home 8
4.1Research on politeness in west 8
4.2 Domestic reasch on politeness 8
4.3Relation between pragmatics and politeness 9
5.Analysis for politeness 10
5.1 Analysis for politeness in greeting 11
5.2 Analysis for politeness in response to compliment 15
6.Conlusion 18
Acknowledgements 19
References 20
