中英商務(wù)郵件中面子策略的性別差異研究.pdf

1、分類號(hào)： 學(xué)校代碼：10069密級(jí)： 研究生學(xué)號(hào)：201310121Gender Differences on the Application of Face Strategiesin Chinese and English Business Emails中英商務(wù)郵件中面子策略的性別差異研究 中英商務(wù)郵件中面子策略的性別差異研究研究生姓名：劉曉露專 業(yè) 名 稱 ：外國(guó)語(yǔ)言學(xué)及應(yīng)用語(yǔ)言學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師姓名：劉淑梅 副教授論文提交日期：2015

2、年 5 月學(xué)位授予單位：天津商業(yè)大學(xué)IABSTRACTOn the condition of economic globalization and regional cooperation, Sino-foreigntrade becomes more and more frequent with each passing day. So in order to reduce thespatial regional difference

3、s and break the economic barrier, wide use of Internet becomessteadily on the increase. Therefore, as a newly emerging communicating method, Internetplays a very important role in modern life. The wide use of Internet ma

4、kes the worldbecome much smaller. What’s more, it also narrows the distances between individuals aswell. At the same time, taking business English emails as a late-model communicatingchannels, it has already been an abso

5、lutely necessary and indispensable communicatingmeans in our daily life. In international transactions, business English emails are going tofulfill a more useful function. For that reason, business emails have been resea

6、rchedextensively by a lot of scholars and researchers in recent years. Moreover, at the presenttime, the researches on business English emails lay particular emphasis on linguistics andpragmatics, which remains an immens

7、e space for the researches from the perspectives ofgender differences and face theories. This thesis takes gender differences and face theoriesas the theoretical frameworks and regards the business English emails as the

8、analyzed text.As we all know, the cultural differences between Chinese and western are remarkable.Furthermore, face theory is one of the most important components of culture. Therefore, thedifferent cognitive perspective

9、 and concerns between Chinese and western will lead to themisunderstandings, even the misinterpretations or misapprehensions, which may result inthe failure of the trade. This thesis will make an intensive study of face

10、theories in businessEnglish emails and bring forth some new ideas. It is in the hope that it would be asupplementation and development to present intercultural business communication study.This thesis adopts face strateg

11、ies of Brown however, westerners are on the contrary. Hypothesis 2, Chinese prefer the strategies ofinvolvement and westerners prefer the strategies of independence; males give preference tothe strategies of independence