Politeness, Language and Culture

Study of the Relativity of Politeness

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210313.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

politeness, culture, language, relativity of politeness

Abstract

Politeness is a universal phenomenon in human society. Yet people’s views on politeness vary from culture to culture. And the influential works concerning politeness written by Brown & Levinson and by Leech are criticized for having a “Western bias”. It is argued that there is no universal theory of politeness applicable to all cultures. This paper makes an analysis of the relationship between politeness, language and culture, and based on the analysis, it probes into the relativity of politeness.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bei Gao
AU  - Wei Zhou
AU  - Wen Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - Politeness, Language and Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 212
EP  - 215
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.039
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.039
ID  - Gao2021
ER  -