科技信息
科技信息
과기신식
SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL INFORMATION
2014年
12期
285-288
,共4页
politeness strategies%business letters%cultural background
This paper explores similarities and differences in the application of positive and negative politeness strategies to Eng-lish and Chinese business letters and illuminates underlying causes of such similarities and differences. The results indicate that English and Chinese business letters have some common features and great discrepancies in categories and the distribution of posi-tive and negative politeness strategies. It is argued that common situational factors, different cultural backgrounds and different syntactic features result in their similarities and differences.
