These rules of conversation also intersect with those of politeness more generally, as formulated by two American linguists, Penelope Brown and Steven Levinson, the pioneers of "politeness theory".

美国两位语言学家Penelope Brown和Steven Levinson是“礼貌理论”的两位先驱，正如他们所阐明的那样，在更多的时候，这些交谈准则和礼貌原则是相互交织在一起的。

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The concept of face raised by Brown and Levinson provides new thinking approaches and methods to improve college students' oral communicative and pragmatic competences.

布朗和列文森的面子观念为提高大学生的英语口语交际能力和语用能力问题提供了新的思路和方法。

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