英语学习者道歉策略语用能力个案研究

A DCT Study of Pragmatic Competence in Apology Strategies by Chinese Learners of English

在中介语语用学及道歉言语行为的理论框架下,以两组不同语言水平的大学英语专业学生为研究对象,通过分析研究对象对问卷调查的回答,考察他们如何实施道歉言语行为及其在道歉策略中的语用能力,并将他们与英语本族语者和汉语本族语者在道歉策略上体现出的语用差异进行比较,结果表明,语言水平在学习者语用能力发展的初级阶段确实起到很大的作用,但是到了语用能力发展的高级阶段不再是决定性因素。

Based on the theoretical intends to make a study of speech act framework of interlanguage pragmatics of apology to describe and analyze the and the speech act of apology, this thesis selection of apology strategies by Chinese learners of English at various levels of linguistic proficiency, by comparing with that of the native American speakers and the native Chinese speakers, and investigating the learners＇ pragmatic competence . Four groups answered the questionnaires called Discourse Completion Test （DCT for short） including eight situations. Chi-square tests were conducted to examine the pragmatic differences in strategy selection among the four groups. The study seems to suggest that linguistic proficiency, which plays an important role in the development of the learner＇s pragmatic competence at the early stage, cannot always be consistent with the development in the higher stages.