Wei Huang
Abstract
White lies have positive significance to the human beings' daily communication in the society. From the perspective of pragmatics, it violates the Quality maxim of Cooperative Principle, conforms to the Politeness Principle and Appropriateness Principle and thus has some pragmatic and communicative value.
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White lies have positive significance to the human beings' daily communication in the society. From the perspective of pragmatics, it violates the Quality maxim of Cooperative Principle, conforms to the Politeness Principle and Appropriateness Principle and thus has some pragmatic and communicative value.
Key concepts: Pragmatics, Maxim, Politeness maxims, Politeness, Cooperative principle, Interpretation (philosophy), Value (mathematics), Perspective (graphical)