Author(s)

Zhuzhu Ma ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of English Studies, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

Zhuzhu Ma

ABSTRACT

The phenomenon of mock politeness is common in our daily life. However, most of the early studies of mock politeness remained at the theoretical level, and few applied to the analysis of specific examples. Taking comedy sketches of 2023 CCTV Spring Festival Gala as materials, this article is based on Brown and Levinson's face theory and Leech's politeness principle to analyze and summarize the forms and functions of mock politeness. And after the analysis, the article found the mock politeness has four realization forms which are mock praise, mock apology, mock help, and mock empathy, and three pragmatic functions which are function of maintaining interpersonal rapport, expressive function and recreational function.

KEYWORDS

Mock politeness, realization form, pragmatic function

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhuzhu Ma, Realization Forms and Pragmatic Functions of Mock Politeness in Comedy Sketches of 2023 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 49-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070209.

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