The Use of Politeness in Online Merchandising Businesses from the Perspective of Geoffrey Leech’s Politeness Principle
Authors
Huanzhang Lin1, *
1School of Foreign Studies of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 863241049@qq.com
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Huanzhang Lin
Available Online 30 March 2022.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220306.006How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Geoffrey Leech’s Politeness Principles; Online merchandising business; Excessive politeness
- Abstract
With the development of online merchandise, more and more trades and deals are completed through online means via electronic devices. At the end of last century, Geoffrey Leech illustrated his Politeness Principles briefly known as six main maxims as “Tact, Generosity, Praise, Modesty, Agreement and Sympathy.” A typical phenomenon for current online merchandising is that excessive and abnormal politeness is used during the process of purchasing such as the using of “Dear” and this proposal is going to have a brief study of this phenomenon and manage to offer an explanatory answer to this phenomenon.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Huanzhang Lin PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/30 TI - The Use of Politeness in Online Merchandising Businesses from the Perspective of Geoffrey Leech’s Politeness Principle BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 36 EP - 39 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220306.006 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220306.006 ID - Lin2022 ER -