1.1 Research Purposes
国际商务沟通几乎每一个国家的经济发展中一直扮演着重要的角色。企业在不同的国家之间的麻烦和冲突可能会频繁发生的行业。在这样的情况下，和解的请求总是要求书的形式投入。根据“索赔信牛津高阶英语词典”（LOC）的定义是写一封公函，要求或要求的东西，因为它是一个人的权利或一个人的财产。组委会一直需要明确和清晰。事实上，模糊，英语论文题目，可以发现在LOC频繁。本论文的目的是探究就业模糊语言LOCand含糊的语用功能，在LOC基于礼貌准则（PP），英语论文题目，合作准则（CP）和面子理论（FT）进行了详细的略论。在这篇论文中的问题加以解决mainstudy如下：1）什么是模糊语言频率LOC？2）为什么人们使用模糊语言在LOC？3）什么是模糊的语用功能在LOC？International business communication has been playing an essential role in nearlyevery country's economic development. Troubles and conflicts in trades may frequentlyhappen among companies in different countries. In such situation, a request forsettlement is always put into the forms of letters of claim. According to the definition ofOxford Advanced English Dictionary, a "letter of claim" (LOC) is an official letterwritten to demand or to request something because it is one's right or one's property.LOC have always been required to be precise and clear. As a matter of fact, vaguenesscan be found in LOC frequently.The aim of this thesis is to explore the employment of vague languages in LOCand to make a detailed analysis of pragmatic functions of vagueness in LOC based onPoliteness Principle (PP), Cooperative Principle (CP) and Face Theory (FT). The mainstudy questions in this thesis to be addressed are as follows:1) What is the frequency of vague language in LOC?2) Why do people use vague language in LOC?3) What are the pragmatic functions of vagueness in LOC?
1.2 Research Significance
For a very long time, vague language has been depreciated by people while theclear and precise language is always highly praised just because it was believed thatvagueness, imprecision, ambiguity should be avoided. In fact, language can not livewithout vague language. However, as the uncertainty of objective entity boundary, theinconsistency on using language is often shown by people for the lack of comprehensiveunderstanding and diverse thinking perspectives. Therefore, the vague form of languageis an inevitable presence.Given former studies concerning vagueness home and abroad, it can be easilyfound that so far vagueness has been studied in various fields. Such widespreadattention paid on vagueness verifies its value for research.At the very beginning, scholars study vague language from semantic perspective,and then they find that vague language can make contexts vague. Thus pragmaticvagueness has been put forward. Since then, vague linguistics has been applied to many practical fields, including language of law, negotiations, advertisements etc. However,little attention has been paid to the vagueness in LOC. The fact is that the usage ofvague language in LOC plays a significant role in solving problems and maintaininggood business relationships. Proper usage of vagueness makes utterances more preciseand objective; proper usage of vagueness helps to protect self from being criticized andsafeguard other's face; proper usage of vagueness can easily express politeness anddraw others' attention.The way to conduct this research shows a new perspective to study vague language.The process of analyzing pragmatic functions will give some advice to business personsin LOC writing, and it will help the addressees understand the vague expressionsadopted by the addresser in LOC.
1.3 Data Collection and Methodology
The present study is a qualitative analysis. Fifty sample letters have been collec
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