Chapter Three elaborates politeness from Face-management perspective, in which Face Theory proposed by Brown and Levison and Politeness Model put forward by Gu Yueguo are contrasted;

• 第三部分从社会文化、面子观的角度对礼貌进行了较为详尽的阐述，主要以布朗和列文森的面子理论和顾曰国提出的符合中国特点的面子理论观为理论基础；