摘要:面子是语用学研究的传统而又经久不衰的话题。自Goffman首次提出面子概念到Brown&Levinson提出礼貌理论,形成了学界众所周知的面子—礼貌研究的经典范式。随着跨学科交叉研究的发展,这一经典理论模式因其具有西方文化中心论的色彩已受到诸多挑战。当今的文献显示,面子研究展现出多学科交叉、多理论视角、多层面解读的发展前景。国外关于面子研究的最新进展可概述为四个方面:从交际互动视角分析面子、依据身份理论解释面子、在特定文化中考察面子、基于言语行为的礼貌/不礼貌阐释面子。本文将对以上四大热点问题依据国外相关文献进行梳理,再现国外面子研究的最新动态。
The classic face-politeness model proposed by Brown and Levinson following Goffman has been criticized for its western ethocentrism and therefore challenged by various approaches, interdisciplinary or cross-sectional. A review of face studies reveals that face study nowadays focuses on four issues such as face in interaction, identity-based face, culture-specific face, and im/politeness-oriented face. The author reviews each of these four issues with an in-depth look at their respective strengths and weaknesses.