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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Definition of Politeness
1.2 The Significance of the Study
1.3 The Layout of the Paper
Chapter Two The Conversational-maxim Perspective
2.1 Grice's Cooperative Principle
2.2 Lakoff's View of Politeness
2.3 Leech's Politeness Principle
Chapter Three The Face-saving Perspective
3.1 The Survey of the Face Theory
3.2 Mao's View
3.3 Summary
Chapter Four The Social-norm Perspective
4.1 English Culture and Politeness
4.1.1 Individualism-the Centre of English Culture
4.1.2 Assertiveness and English Politeness
4.2 Chinese Culture and Politeness
4.2.1 A Historical Survey of Chinese Politeness
4.2.2 Chinese Politeness- a Collectivism-based Concept
4.2.3 Gu's Politeness Model
4.2.4 Non-assertiveness and Chinese Limao
4.3 Some Personal Perceptions
Chapter Five Case Studies
5.1 An Analysis of the Invitation
5.2 Investigation of Pragmatic Failure
Chapter Six Implications and Conclusions
6.1 Cross-cultural Communication
6.2 Foreign Language Teaching and Leaming
6.3 Conclusions
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