Pragmatic Vagueness in Business Correspondences——A Perspective of PP

摘要

Pragmatic vagueness is frequently used in business correspondences and it offers benefits to the addressers by making business letter more flexible,appropriate and polite.This paper focuses on the employment of vague language in international business correspondences based on the Politeness Principle.In this study,the pragmatic effect of vague language in business correspondence is illustrated and summarized as a motivated factor to better show politeness and respect.The use of vague language motivated by politeness consequently leads to a more smooth,successful and desired communication in business world.