以语言交际为中心的敬语教学方法初探

Research on the Methodology of Teaching Courteous Address in Japanese by Means of Linguistic Communication

敬语是日语语言交际过程中的重要一环 ,往往被认为是构筑良好人际关系的重要手段。日常生活中的敬语运用实际上反映了日本人深层的思想观念和文化心理意识。可见 ,敬语并非一种静止、机械的语法现象 ,而是日本人在现实生活中语言行为的一个有机组成部分。本文认为以往以语法为中心的敬语教学模式难以取得理想效果 ,教学的重点应放在如何培养学生使用敬语进行沟通和交流上。本文从敬语与语言交际的关系入手 ,初步探讨了以语言交际为中心的敬语教学方法。

Courteous address in Japanese is a most important factor in the course of linguistic communication. It is considered as one necessary means of cultivating good relationships with others. Its application in daily life, in fact, mirrors the deep rooted ideology and cultural psychology of the Japanese people. Therefore, courteous address is scarcely a static, mechanical grammatical phenomenon, but one of the closely knit linguistic behaviours in the Japanese reality. According to this essay, it is believed that the traditional grammar centred methodology cannot bring about a satisfactory result in terms of courteous address teaching, but it is suggested that teaching be focused on the students' competence of using them in communication and discourse. Beginning with the relation between courteous address and linguistic communication, this paper probes into the problem of how to teach courteous address by means of linguistic communication.