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Ide, S., Hill, B., Carners, Y.M., Ogino, T. and Kawasaki, A. (1992) The Concept of Politeness: An Empirical Study of American English and German. In: Watts, R., Ide, S. and Ehlich, K., Eds., Politeness in Language: Studies in Its History, Theory and Practice, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

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• TITLE: A Model of Translation of Politeness Based on Relevance Theory

  AUTHORS: Fang Wang

  KEYWORDS: Relevance, Politeness, Relevance Degree, Translation

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.2 No.9, September 12, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Sperber and Wilson developed the Relevance Theory of communication. It did not take long before it was applied to translation. This dissertation attempts to illustrate the model of the translation of politeness. Translation is a cross-linguistic sociocultural practice, in which a text in one language is replaced by a text with equivalent relevance degree in another. The original contains three variables, which, once summed, give the weightiness of the face-threatening act and the choice of stimulus is decided.