亲子对话中的重复语研究

A Study of Repetition in Parent-Child Conversation

日常会话是话语研究的重要领域。重复语作为一种语言形式,在日常会话中使用非常普遍。目前有关对口语形式的重复语的研究主要集中在教育语篇类,如教师课堂话语,而对于日常会话中的重复语研究相对较少。本文选择了20篇年轻母亲与其幼子之间的对话作为语料,对其中的重复语进行形式上和功能上的考察。本文根据Huang (2010)的研究,将语料中的重复语分为两类,自我重复和他人重复。研究结果显示,在形式上,重复语多以双音节词为主。在功能上,母亲的重复语多用于告知信息已收到,要求儿子澄清或确认。而儿子的重复语多用于对母亲的话语进行模仿。

Daily conversation is an important area of discourse research. As a form of language, repetitive language is very common in everyday conversations. At present, the research on the repetitive language of spoken language mainly focuses on educational discourse, such as teacher’s classroom discourse, and there are relatively few studies on repetitive language in daily conversation. This paper selects the dialogues between a young mother and her young child as a corpus, and makes a formal and functional examination of the repetitive language. According to Huang (2010), this paper divides the repetitive words in the corpus into two categories, self-repetition and other repetition. The results of the study show that, in form, the repeated words are mainly two-syllable words. Functionally, the mother’s repetitive language is mostly used to acknowledge the receipt of information and ask the son to clarify or confirm. The son’s repetitive language is mostly used to imitate the mother’s words.