2。1。2 Newly Developing Words in Chinese Greetings

    In recent years, with the emerging of E-business, such as Taobao, Tmall etc。 The increasing number of people are keen on shopping on the Internet。 What’s more, the online sellers are widely use the word “dear” to greet their customers。 And with the word become more and more popular, it not just limited in the Internet between sellers and customers, but also turn into the opening remarks in greeting among friends, colleagues, or acquaintances and so on。 Under this trend, this kind of word gradually turn to be a new greeting word。 

    2。1。3 Expressing Compliment in Chinese Greetings

    When we praise other people in the purpose of pleasing them, or a euphemism for our denial attitude toward other people’s words and deeds, we define it as compliment。 Actually, it’s also a kind of speech intercommunication。

     In Chinese greeting, people tend to express concern for their elder family member or show respect for the superior。 For instance, people usually said, “You still look so young as before, nothing has change on your face。 ” while they meet the one they have long time no see。 By this kind of greeting, it virtually shorten the distance of each other and make other one in a happy of mood。 Of course, the communication can be easily to continue。 People may know those words are more or less be compliment, they still take in good part。来:自[优E尔L论W文W网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

      From one aspect, compliment should be accord with specified context, this fact is crucial importance。 Otherwise, the result must turn out to be the opposite of people’s wish。 In terms of the sentence, “ You have put on weigh。 ” it’s no doubt a quite common greet with compliment in ancient times。 The addressee regard it as a high life standard for themselves, those words indicate they don’t have to worry about food and eat well, in other words, they are living in good health condition。 But if you greet other one by this way in today’s society, people are likely to be angry with it。 Why the same greeting way take totally different effects on people’s communication in different times? At this point, we have to take the special historical background into account。 In the old society, subsistence problem is hard to be settled, the majority of people are suffering from the foods and clothing problems。 Therefore, if you greet other one by “You have put on weight”, people would accept it with pleasure as they think you hold a positive attitude toward their life。 But in today’s society, with the settlement of subsistence problem and the deepening of reform, people’s living standard also get to a high level, they are no longer worry about food problem, on the contrary, in order to keep fashion, lose weight and look slim become a goal that many people searching for。 At this time, if you greet other one by this way, it can really annoy others and they may think you are intent to insult them。 So it’s not hard to explain the reason why the same greeting way receive different response。