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Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”

Based on discourse of a Chinese talk show, this study aims to test and verify Brown & Levinson’s (hereafter B&L) theory of politeness. Politeness is culture specific, and in this respect, the term of “face” provides more evidence. Adopting descriptive text analysis, this study analysed the t...

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Main Authors: Wu, Meimei, Wang, Jianning
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Language:English
Published: European Publisher 2019
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BJ1725 Ethics of Social Groups, Classes, etc., Professional Ethics
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https://www.europeanproceedings.com/proceedings/EpSBS/volumes/ich2019
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spelling my.usm.eprints.48053 http://eprints.usm.my/48053/ Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One” Wu, Meimei Wang, Jianning BJ1725 Ethics of Social Groups, Classes, etc., Professional Ethics Based on discourse of a Chinese talk show, this study aims to test and verify Brown & Levinson’s (hereafter B&L) theory of politeness. Politeness is culture specific, and in this respect, the term of “face” provides more evidence. Adopting descriptive text analysis, this study analysed the transcriptions of a popular Chinese TV show If You Are the One on a rhetorical level in the context of Chinese culture. The present study reveals that politeness strategies are prevalent in If You Are the One, with the majority of them being positive politeness strategies, which contradict with B&L’s claim that people tend to select negative politeness as their preference, while bald on-record and off-record ones occurring rarely among the texts. The result shows that B&L’s politeness model provides us directions about the affecting elements of Chinese interaction on its validity. Under positive politeness, the author added three subcategories, namely speaking, “approbation of L”, “showing gratitude”, and “saving face for L”. The original typology presented by B&L may reflect a western cultural bias, but necessitating validation efforts for each culture is research worthy. Chinese peculiar culture contributes a lot to the result, which hints a further research in the future. European Publisher 2019-10-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/48053/1/Politeness%20Strategies%20of%20Chinese%20in%20A%20Talk%20Show%20%E2%80%9CIf%20You%20Are%20The%20One%E2%80%9D.pdf Wu, Meimei and Wang, Jianning (2019) Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 89. pp. 595-605. ISSN 2357-1330 https://www.europeanproceedings.com/proceedings/EpSBS/volumes/ich2019
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Wu, Meimei
Wang, Jianning
Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
description Based on discourse of a Chinese talk show, this study aims to test and verify Brown & Levinson’s (hereafter B&L) theory of politeness. Politeness is culture specific, and in this respect, the term of “face” provides more evidence. Adopting descriptive text analysis, this study analysed the transcriptions of a popular Chinese TV show If You Are the One on a rhetorical level in the context of Chinese culture. The present study reveals that politeness strategies are prevalent in If You Are the One, with the majority of them being positive politeness strategies, which contradict with B&L’s claim that people tend to select negative politeness as their preference, while bald on-record and off-record ones occurring rarely among the texts. The result shows that B&L’s politeness model provides us directions about the affecting elements of Chinese interaction on its validity. Under positive politeness, the author added three subcategories, namely speaking, “approbation of L”, “showing gratitude”, and “saving face for L”. The original typology presented by B&L may reflect a western cultural bias, but necessitating validation efforts for each culture is research worthy. Chinese peculiar culture contributes a lot to the result, which hints a further research in the future.
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author Wu, Meimei
Wang, Jianning
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Wang, Jianning
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title Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
title_short Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
title_full Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
title_fullStr Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
title_full_unstemmed Politeness Strategies of Chinese in A Talk Show “If You Are The One”
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url http://eprints.usm.my/48053/1/Politeness%20Strategies%20of%20Chinese%20in%20A%20Talk%20Show%20%E2%80%9CIf%20You%20Are%20The%20One%E2%80%9D.pdf
http://eprints.usm.my/48053/
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