| A Principled Understanding of Compliment Functions Based on a New Version of Brown and Levinson’s Face |
| Wang, Yang |
| Keyword | compliment function
negative/positive face
negative/positive need
demanding/giving
interaction model
im/politeness
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| Abstract | No research (to our limited knowledge) has focused on or achieved a clear and principled understanding of the functions of compliment. The present paper, firstly, based on the definition of “face” by Brown and Levinson (1987), suggests a new version of their “face” (two universal concepts): negative need and positive need; secondly, with the help of the speech role classification by Halliday (2004), this paper puts forward a new theoretical model of human interaction (which has yielded new definitions of im/politeness); finally, the paper applies the new theoretical model of human interaction to the functions of compliment with an attempt to achieve a principled understanding of the functions. |
| Subject Area | Pragmatics
; Politeness
; Compliment Function
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| Format | PDF
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| 2018-10-29
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| published status | N-未发表
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| Language | 英语
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| Document Type | 预印本
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| Identifier | https://ir.lzu.edu.cn/handle/262010/198118
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| Collection | 外国语学院
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| Affiliation | The college of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Lanzhou University, No. 222 South, Tianshui Road, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, the People’s Republic of China
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Recommended Citation
GB/T 7714 |
Wang, Yang. A Principled Understanding of Compliment Functions Based on a New Version of Brown and Levinson’s Face. 2018.
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