Based on Brown &Levinson's Face Threatening Acts and Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions,this study is an analysis of Chinese college students' face needs in EFL class.In this study,the subjects are 1...Based on Brown &Levinson's Face Threatening Acts and Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions,this study is an analysis of Chinese college students' face needs in EFL class.In this study,the subjects are 116 freshmen,non-English majors.Selecting totally 60 students from them and dividing them into two groups according to their scores of College English Entrance Examination.The collected data from questionnaire are analyzed by statistical software SPSS16.0 version.The major findings from the analysis include the following:1) high-scored students and low-scored students have similar positive face needs;2) Weight of imposition,group tendency and uncertainty avoidance are used to exam students' negative face needs.According to the data in SPSS16.0,there is a difference between the two groups in terms of the weight of imposition.But the Independent-Samples T test of Sum of Questionnaire indicates that there is no distinct difference in the negative face needs between the two groups.展开更多
In contemporary society, as the development of globalization a growing tendency of how to communication effectively between different culture and languages has becoming a matter of fact. Even though a great number of ...In contemporary society, as the development of globalization a growing tendency of how to communication effectively between different culture and languages has becoming a matter of fact. Even though a great number of communication strategies used to reduce the culture shock, obstacles in cultural exchanges still remains due to the culture differences. Politeness theory,as an important communication strategy, is still the most important and influential theory for cross- cultural communication.While there still has a few controversial arguments being conducted. It results in the issue of this article: Is there different comparing Chinese culture with English Speaking Culture in Terms of Politeness Strategies? In this paper, I will present a general review of classic politeness theories including Brown & Levinson, Leech's research in English speaking culture and Gu and Xu's findings in Chinese culture. Among their theories some specific politeness strategies such as face-saving strategy, politeness principle and its maxims will be used to give an image of the difference between Chinese culture and English speaking culture in terms of politeness strategies. In the definition of‘politeness', two characteristics are worth mentioning: universality as well as culture-specific. Therefore the article concludes by the arguing that, in spite of a few similarities, there are differences between in Chinese culture and in English speaking context in politeness.展开更多
文摘Based on Brown &Levinson's Face Threatening Acts and Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions,this study is an analysis of Chinese college students' face needs in EFL class.In this study,the subjects are 116 freshmen,non-English majors.Selecting totally 60 students from them and dividing them into two groups according to their scores of College English Entrance Examination.The collected data from questionnaire are analyzed by statistical software SPSS16.0 version.The major findings from the analysis include the following:1) high-scored students and low-scored students have similar positive face needs;2) Weight of imposition,group tendency and uncertainty avoidance are used to exam students' negative face needs.According to the data in SPSS16.0,there is a difference between the two groups in terms of the weight of imposition.But the Independent-Samples T test of Sum of Questionnaire indicates that there is no distinct difference in the negative face needs between the two groups.
文摘In contemporary society, as the development of globalization a growing tendency of how to communication effectively between different culture and languages has becoming a matter of fact. Even though a great number of communication strategies used to reduce the culture shock, obstacles in cultural exchanges still remains due to the culture differences. Politeness theory,as an important communication strategy, is still the most important and influential theory for cross- cultural communication.While there still has a few controversial arguments being conducted. It results in the issue of this article: Is there different comparing Chinese culture with English Speaking Culture in Terms of Politeness Strategies? In this paper, I will present a general review of classic politeness theories including Brown & Levinson, Leech's research in English speaking culture and Gu and Xu's findings in Chinese culture. Among their theories some specific politeness strategies such as face-saving strategy, politeness principle and its maxims will be used to give an image of the difference between Chinese culture and English speaking culture in terms of politeness strategies. In the definition of‘politeness', two characteristics are worth mentioning: universality as well as culture-specific. Therefore the article concludes by the arguing that, in spite of a few similarities, there are differences between in Chinese culture and in English speaking context in politeness.
