网络聊天会话中的礼貌策略研究
关键词 面子理论；积极礼貌策略；网络会话
毕业论文外文摘要
Title A Study of Politeness Strategies in Internet Relay Chat
Abstract
The form of modern network chat is getting more persified and the harmonious development of the network society is still a hot topic today. Based on politeness strategies in online chat activities, the present study intends to explore the types, forms, characteristics and pragmatic functions of positive politeness strategies in the Internet chat compared with negative politeness strategies under the framework of Brown and Levinson's face theory. This article records and analyses examples of politeness strategies in such simultaneous online chat as QQ and WeChat . This study aims to help the modern Internet users deepen the understanding of politeness strategies and use this strategy properly, thus promoting the decent development of internet relay chat.
Key words face theory; positive politeness strategies; internet relay chat
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Literature Review 2
3 Theoretical Framework 4
4 Research Methodology 6
5 Positive Politeness Strategies in Network Communication 8
5.1 Explanation 8
5.2 Avoid Disagreement 9
5.3 Exaggeration 9
5.4 Praise 10
5.5 Joking 11
5.6 Make A Promise 11
5.7 Declare Small Group Identity 12
5.8 Suppose to Understand the Listener 12
5.9 Pay Attention to Listener’s Requirements 12
5.10 Seek Agreement 13
5.11 Presuppose Common Ground 13
5.12 Express Positive Desire 13
5.13 Cover Both Sides 14
Conclusion 15
Acknowledgment 16
References 17
1 Introduction
Since the end of 1980s, various forms of online chat tools have sprung up and today they are going to be in a higher position than phone calls and messages in some ways. Unlike online chat rooms, instant messengers today is usually used to keeping in touch with people who know each other but not with totally strangers. In China almost 70 percent of the population use either Wechat or QQ or both of them, ranging from children to the aged. So the harmonious network environment appears to be quite important to people’s daily life.
Network has built a virtual society for people which is different from the real society, it is free, open, virtual and non-humanized, and therefore it has also led to changes of universal politeness principle in the network language communication. It is necessary to do some new research since the instant messenger is getting improved so fast.
2 Literature Review
Modern technology has been escalating fast and network language is changed accordingly due to the difference of user groups, communication tools, communication medium and so forth. Current online chat is mostly instant conversation and the subject of this article is this kind of synchronous, bidirectional, instant messaging. Baron(2004)called IM “one-on-one synchronous way of network communication”; Schiano et al. (2002) defined it as “a direct, instant and informal online contact ” ; Ferrara, Bmnner and Whittemore (1991) believed that it is “an interactive written conversation”; Tao Yuexin (2013) defined it as “a type of one-on-one instant communication system based on text” according to previous conclusions.