A Study Of Chinese Reduplicated Words In Media Program "Dialogue" From The Perspective Of Grand Strategy Of Politeness

People tend to use various devices to realize politeness effect in daily communication in order to keep up good interpersonal relationships.Chinese reduplicated words are an important device in realizing politeness effects.Previous studies mainly focus on verb reduplication and politeness effects.However,few studies pay close attention to adjective reduplication,adverb reduplication and the politeness effects of reduplicated words.The present study tries to explore the language feature and politeness effect in each reduplication word,taking the GSP as theoretical guidance proposed by Geoffrey N.Leech(2005).Developed by the Communication University of China,Media Language Corpus(MLC)is employed in this study.Two questions are presented to obtain the overall goal: first,what are the types and distributions of Chinese reduplicated words with politeness effect in this corpus? Second,how is politeness effect realized by Chinese reduplicated words?The findings of the present study are as follows:There are three types of reduplicated words in Chinese in this processed corpus.They are verb reduplication,adjective reduplication,and adverb reduplication.The most commonly used reduplicated words in this data is verb reduplication with 92.7% of the total 1588 utterances.Adjective reduplication comes to the second;accounting for 4.5% in 76 utterances.Adverb reduplication is the least one,with merely 2.8% among 49 utterances.Reduplicated words will be used in each corpus.Some of them will be repeated quite a few times.Verb reduplication with politeness effects is displayed by generosity maxim,tact maxim,agreement maxim,sympathy maxim and feeling-reticence maxim.Tact maxim and agreement maxim are the most commonly used in this selected corpus,accounting for 43.4% and 40.3%.Adjective reduplication with politeness effects follows tact maxim,modesty maxim,agreement maxim and sympathy maxim.Agreement maxim is the primary maxim of GSP to realize politeness effects in adjective reduplication,accounting for 48.7%.Besides,adverb reduplication with politeness effects follows approbation maxim,obligation of S to O maxim,agreement maxim and sympathy maxim.Agreement maxim is the main maxim of GSP with politeness effects,accounting for 69.4%.