FTA 완화전략에 따른 영어의 공손표현과 불공손표현

Alleviating Strategies of FTA and Polite Expressions in English

The purpose of this paper is to describe English expressions of politeness according to Brown and Levinson(1987)’s politeness theory and to present expressions of impoliteness felt by foreigners (American, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) and Koreans. For this purpose, this thesis reviews the alleviating strategies of FTA, and polite expressions in English and Korean are described in positive and negative politeness strategies because ‘Off record’ strategies threaten ‘negative face’ and are involved in negative politeness strategies. It has been found that foreigners feel pragmatic, rather than grammatical, mistakes to be impolite. Hence when we learn foreign languages, in order to be polite, we need to understand each country’s cultural aspects, nonlinguistic expressions, and meanings of words or sentences suitable to the communication.