A Pragmatic Study Of Politeness In Modern Japanese

Politeness is an important aspect of pragmatics research.The research on politeness in modern linguistics has developed based on the theories of conversational implicature and cooperative principle,forming a classic politeness research model centered on the politeness principle and face theory.The study of politeness in the classical mode is based on the Western cultural background,which leads to insufficient research results and corresponding lack of systematic and in-depth research in specific cultural backgrounds.This study uses Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy theory as empirical tools,and attempts to systematically construct modern Japanese polite expressions based on existing politeness research theories,forming the theoretical foundation and framework of the study.By static description of the language forms of polite language,polite sentence structures,and other means of polite expression in Japanese,the content of the research hypothesis is demonstrated.The actual use of various polite strategies is empirically demonstrated in a self built corpus,forming the basis for pragmatic analysis of Japanese politeness.Furthermore,this paper discusses the study of Japanese politeness in the context of cross-cultural communication.Based on empirical results and pragmatic analysis,this paper analyzes politeness in the Japanese cultural context from the aspects of characteristics,functions,cognitive patterns,and restrictive factors.It is pointed out that politeness in the Japanese cultural context presents a social norm attribute that is different from the communicative strategy selection attribute in the Western social and cultural context,but has obvious coercive characteristics.At the same time,it is emphasized that there are differences in the connotations of politeness in specific cultural backgrounds.It is found that in communication activities,the choices and responses of polite strategies by communication participants are not fixed,and there is no corresponding feature between the two.The similarity of politeness in different cultural backgrounds comes from the similarity of human cognitive patterns.