| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第5-8页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| 2 Review of Literature | 第12-22页 |
| ·Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory | 第12-16页 |
| ·Two Face Wants | 第13页 |
| ·Face Threatening Acts | 第13-15页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies | 第15-16页 |
| ·Politeness Principle by Leech | 第16-19页 |
| ·From Cooperative Principles (CP) to Politeness Principle (PP) | 第17-18页 |
| ·Maxims of Politeness | 第18-19页 |
| ·Correlation between the Two Models | 第19-22页 |
| 3 Linguistic Politeness in Communication | 第22-32页 |
| ·Relation of Politeness and Communication | 第22-24页 |
| ·How is Politeness Communicated? | 第22-24页 |
| ·Politeness in Transactional Context | 第24页 |
| ·Politeness, the Lubricant for Communication | 第24-27页 |
| ·Communicative Goals | 第25-26页 |
| ·Functions of Politeness in Communication | 第26-27页 |
| ·Politeness and Speech Acts | 第27-32页 |
| ·Searle's Classification of Speech Acts | 第27-28页 |
| ·Leech's Criteria | 第28-29页 |
| ·One Example: the Politeness in Disagreeing | 第29-32页 |
| 4 Competence for Linguistic Politeness | 第32-48页 |
| ·Grounding Linguistic Politeness in Communicative Competence | 第32-35页 |
| ·Communicative Competence | 第32-34页 |
| ·Pragmatic Competence | 第34-35页 |
| ·Model of the Competence for Linguistic Politeness | 第35-48页 |
| ·Overview of the Model | 第35-36页 |
| ·Social Knowledge | 第36-40页 |
| ·Relative Power | 第36-38页 |
| ·Social Distance | 第38-39页 |
| ·Ranking of Imposition | 第39-40页 |
| ·Strategic Knowledge | 第40-44页 |
| ·Linguistic Manifestation of Politeness Strategies | 第40-43页 |
| ·Politeness Strategies for Different Communicative Goals | 第43-44页 |
| ·Cultural Knowledge | 第44-48页 |
| ·Universalistic and Particularistic Approaches | 第45-46页 |
| ·Cultural Varieties of Linguistic Politeness | 第46-48页 |
| 5 Developing Competence for Linguistic Politeness in EFL Teaching | 第48-60页 |
| ·Difficulties | 第49-52页 |
| ·Negative Pragmatic Transfer From L | 第49-50页 |
| ·Insufficient Contact to Native Language Environment | 第50-51页 |
| ·Lack of Helpful Feedback | 第51页 |
| ·Self-consciousness of Adult Identity | 第51-52页 |
| ·How to Develop the Competence for Linguistic Politeness? | 第52-56页 |
| ·Raising Awareness | 第53-55页 |
| ·Practicing | 第55-56页 |
| ·Implication for EFL Teaching | 第56-60页 |
| ·EFL Classroom | 第56-57页 |
| ·EFL Teaching material | 第57-60页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第60-62页 |
| References | 第62-65页 |
