英语中介语请求言语行为调查研究

Investigating Chinese Non-English Majors' Interlanguage Speech Act of Requests

根据实际问卷调查结果,通过对中国非英语专业本科生的英语中介语请求言语行为序列的统计分析,可以得出三个结论:(1)英语中介语请求言语行为序列具备请求言语行为的普遍性结构特征;(2)说话人与受话人的社会地位、行为的难易程度明显影响请求言语行为序列;(3)母语与目的语的文化差异导致英语中介语请求言语行为中出现一些语用迁移和语用失误现象。

This paper mainly reports the study of Chinese non-English majors' interlanguage speech act of requests. The results show that:(1) Chinese non-English majors' interlanguage speech act of requests contains the common features of speech act of requests;(2)the sequence of speech act of requests is influenced by speaker's and listener's status and the level of difficulty in the act requested; (3) some pragmatic transfer and failure exist owing to the cultural differences between learners' native tongue and target language.